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From ''one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page'' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-Akner

''Clever, moving and unexpected. A brilliantly deft and subtle story.'' - Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing

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A warm Sunday in November 1957. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day.

Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn't particularly happy in his job but he fulfils the role, playing golf with the partners, drinking in the bar, chasing the women. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion, with a key shot up her sleeve called The Most', is now a mother and homemaker.

Somehow these two, who have been together since college, have fallen into the roles expected of them the prescribed suburban dream they have been sold as something t

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Transworld Publishers Ltd
      Published 1 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9781529928877
      978-1529928877
      ISBN-10 1529928877
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From ''one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page'' (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife, for fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen and Taffy Brodesser-Akner

      ''Clever, moving and unexpected. A brilliantly deft and subtle story.'' - Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing

      ---

      A warm Sunday in November 1957. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day.

      Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn't particularly happy in his job but he fulfils the role, playing golf with the partners, drinking in the bar, chasing the women. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion, with a key shot up her sleeve called The Most', is now a mother and homemaker.

      Somehow these two, who have been together since college, have fallen into the roles expected of them the prescribed suburban dream they have been sold as something t

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