‘Marisa felt, with unexpected acuteness, the fragility of everything, the ease with which it could all be taken away from her.’ But Marisa puts this to one side – she loves him, after all, and she’s having his baby. Of course, our suspicions (this is a domestic noir, after all) immediately fall on Jake, a man who ‘belongs to that cadre of Englishmen who have never had to worry about learning the rules because they are the ones who make them.’ He’s cagey about his family, his corporate job seems to be going south, and he doesn’t go in for PDA. We don’t learn much about Jake – or Marisa, for that matter. They’ve only known each other a few months before they’ve moved in together, and she quickly falls pregnant. When Jake, a decade her senior, walks into her life, she feels that everything is falling into place as it should. 28-year-old Marisa may not yet have reached thirty, but she’s keen to settle down and start a family.
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