Close to Home

Bestselling author Deborah Moggach's second novel, "Close to Home," was first published in 1979. The novel explores family life, divorce, children, and relationships. Kate Cooper is married to James and tries to be the perfect wife, but she feels like she doesn't quite get it right. She meets her next-door neighbor, Sam, an aspiring novelist who has time on his hands. The novel follows one hot summer, passion, and dislocation as lives converge in unexpected ways.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 25 May 2023
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

First published in 1979, this is the bestselling author Deborah Moggach's second novel.

Moggach is at the height of her powers.

Sunday Times

She really is the Nora Ephron of North London.

Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures

She writes unflinchingly about family life, divorce, children, and the ups and downs of relationships.

Independent

Kate Cooper has been married to James for six years, and is trying very hard to be the model wife while he enjoys his high-flying career, but there's always something she feels she doesn't get quite right, whether it's her inability to remove their toddler son's pencil squiggles from the freshly painted walls, to the grubby button holes on her new blouse.

Then she meets aspiring novelist Sam, her next-door neighbour, a man who shouldn't, but does, have time on his hands. And he makes her laugh. But what about his wife, and their daughter Marion, dreaming her way through adolescence?

CLOSE TO HOME is a novel of one hot summer, of passion and dislocation, and of lives converging in unexpected ways.

Weight: 192g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472289926