num_pages: 320
description: After twelve years of marriage and two kids Merit has begun to feel like a stranger in her own life. She loves her husband and sons but she desperately needs something more than sippy cups and monthly sex. So she returns to her career at Jager  Brandt where a brilliant and beautiful Danish architect named Jane decides to overlook the break in Merits resume and give her a shot. Jane is a supernovawitty and dazzling and unapologetically herselfand as the two work closely together their relationship becomes a true friendship. In Jane Merit sees the possibility of what a woman could be. And Jane sees Merit exactly for who she is. Not the wife and mother dutifully performing the roles expected of her but a whole person.Their relationship quickly becomes a cornerstone in Merits life. And as Merit starts to open her mind to the idea of moremore of a partner more of a match more in loveshe begins to question: what if the love of her life isnt the man she married. What if its Jane?
language: English
title: Like a House on Fire
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons