Author: Diana Evans
publisher name: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 9781784742157
Ordinary People is set in South London in 2008. The story revolves around two couples at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa, dealing with a new baby, struggles not to let motherhood change her, but she begins to disappear within the narrow walls of her Victorian terrace. Michael, still in love with Melissa, finds it challenging to get close enough to stay faithful. In the suburbs, Stephanie is content with Damian and their three children, but Damian's father's death throws him into crisis. The novel explores identity, parenthood, sex, grief, friendship, aging, and the fragile architecture of love against the backdrop of Barack Obama's historic election victory.
