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.
