Yet her mother’s will cracks open Susan’s carefully controlled emotions. Once pregnant, Susan ends the relationship, not willing to risk her independence. Even her love life is carefully choreographed: Instead of dating, she sensibly answered a lonely hearts ad from a well-groomed, well-employed gentleman looking for a companion, and for 12 years, she and Richard spent each Wednesday visiting art exhibits and having no-strings-attached intimate encounters. An attorney by training, she’s chosen to avoid the troublesome job of looking after actual people’s problems and instead works as a data analyst in London. Susan has spent her life trying to keep messy feelings at bay. And then her mother dies, leaving the family house to Susan’s ne’er-do-well brother, Edward, for as long as he wants to live in it. Unexpectedly pregnant at age 45, Susan Green finds her perfectly organized life turning upside down.
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