Fly away home

Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school when she had wild curls, wide hips and plenty of opinions. Decades later she has remade herself into the ideal politician's wife, her job reduced to staying thin and tending to her husband, the senator.

Their younger daughter Lizzie is twenty-four and a recovering addict who keeps her life in check with the mantra HALT: Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired? Trouble still finds her. Her older sister Diana is an emergency room physician with the husband, the son and the perfect house Lizzie never managed, and a loveless marriage she is quietly desperate to escape.

When Richard's extramarital affair becomes a national headline, all three women are forced into the glare of the press conference and then into each other's company. Jennifer Weiner's novel blends heartbreak and hilarity into a story of a mother and two daughters who, after a lifetime of distance, finally learn to take refuge in one another.