
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl series brings her sharp-eyed and irresistible wit to this "quirky novel of lovable misfits" ( Publishers Weekly ) chronicling a year in the lives of four families in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood as they seek purpose and community—until one unforgettable night at a raucous neighborhood party knocks them to their senses. Welcome to Cobble Hill.In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood, private storms brew amongst four married couples and their children. There's ex-groupie Mandy, so underwhelmed by motherhood and her current physical state that she fakes a debilitating disease to get the attention of her skateboarding, ex-boyband member husband Stuart. There's the unconventional new school nurse, Peaches, on whom Stuart has an unrequited crush, and her disappointing husband Greg, who wears noise-cancelling headphones—everywhere.A few blocks away, Roy, a well-known, newly transplanted British novelist, has lost the thread of his next novel and his marriage to indefatigable Wendy. Around the corner, Tupper, the nervous, introverted industrial designer with a warehouse full of prosthetic limbs struggles to pin down his elusive artist wife Elizabeth. Throw in two hormonal teenagers, a ten-year-old pyromaniac, a drug dealer pretending to be a doctor, and a lot of hidden cameras, and you've got a combustible mix of egos, desires, and secrets bubbling in brownstone Brooklyn."Breezy, witty, and compulsively fun to read" ( Kirkus Reviews ), Cobble Hill is highly entertaining portrait of contemporary family life and the colorful characters who call Brooklyn home.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Part I: September
- Part II: October
- Part III: One Week Later
- Part IV: November 3
- Part V: November 5
- One Year Later
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright