This Beautiful Life

This Beautiful Life

It could happen to any family ... What if it happened to yours?

When the Bergamots move to a new well-to-do neighbourhood, they're unsure how well they'll adapt. Soon though, Richard is consumed by his executive role and Liz, who has given up her academic career, is hectically playing mother to four-year-old Coco and fifteen-year-old Jake. But the day Jake unthinkingly forwards to his friend a sexually explicit email sent to him by a young girl is the last day of the Bergamots' comfortable middle-class existence. Faced with impossible choices, what Richard and Liz do next risks destroying not only their marriage, their daughter and their place in the community, but also Jake - the child they have set out to protect.

Helen Schulman is the author of the novels A Day at the Beach, P.S., The Revisionist and Out of Time, and the short story collection Not a Free Show. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ, The Paris Review, and the New York Times Book Review. She is an Associate Professor of Writing at The New School. She lives in New York City.

Review: A must read for every parent & teenager, on how one impulsive thoughtless moment can change your life.

This Beautiful Life
Allen and Unwin
Author: Helen Schulman
ISBN: 9780857896230
Price: $24.95