Witty and endearingly neurotic, Kate Armstrong has hit middle-age and the mid-life crisis that goes along with it. Shes a successful feminist journalist, but struggling to challenge herself at work. Shes a divorcee and a mother, but her children have all left the nest. She has a lively circle of friends, but her relationships with them are complicated by years of history and failed affairs. With her "unfailing insight and intelligence" (The New York Times), Margaret Drabble shows us a woman alone in London for the first time in years, slowly rediscovering herself in a city on the brink of great change.