Newly engaged, twenty-eight-year-old Adam Newman is a prized catch in his tight-knit Jewish suburb of London, but as the plans for his wedding with his high school sweetheart, Rachel Gilbert, begin to close in around him, Rachel's younger cousin Ellie Schneider moves home from New York and she unsettles Adam with her beauty and independence, showing him what freedom is all about.

"A wry, tender novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary choices. Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile...