things change

A wonderful read is Justin Cartwright’s The Promise of Happiness, a fine English novel about a dysfunctional family – something I know a lot about!
Also recommended is I’m Not Sacred by Niccolo Ammaniti, a tense story set in Italy about childhood.
And I finally finished  a wonderful collection of short stories called Stories to Get You Through the Night, published by Vintage Classics, and which contains the fabulously funny short story A Convalescent Ego by Richard Yates, in which the couple are called Jean and Bill and the son is called Mike!