num_pages: 320
description: From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Gossip Girl series a deliciously irresistible novel chronicling a year in the life of four families in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood as they seek purpose community and meaningful relationshipsuntil 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. Theres 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. Theres the unconventional new school nurse Peaches on whom Stuart has an unrequited crush and her disappointing husband Greg who wears noise-cancelling headphoneseverywhere. A few blocks away Roy a well-known newly transplanted British novelist has lost the thread of his next novel and his marriage to capable 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. She remains...elusive. Throw in two hormonal teenagers a 10-year-old pyromaniac a drug dealer pretending to be a doctor and a lot of hidden cameras and youve got a combustible mix of egos desires and secrets bubbling in brownstone Brooklyn. Smart sophisticated yet surprisingly tender Cobble Hill is highly entertaining portrait of contemporary family life and the colorful characters who call Brooklyn home.
language: English
title: Cobble Hill
publisher: Atria Books