In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble.

With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.

This has been hanging about in our LFL for a while, so thought it deserves a new home. I have another copy on my TBR shelf.
Hitching a ride with another book - hope you haven’t read it.

What a lovely bonus to receive. Thank you crimson-tide. I haven’t read it and look forward to reading it in the future.

Reserved for the OZVBB.

I loved this. It was a bleak end of 2023 read but so so good. Yates captures the banality of the burbs beautifully.

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I’ve picked up quite a few books from this usually well stocked street library. It was a little empty today, perhaps due to the fresh paint job on the outside of the library making it look very bright and colourful.