After the birth of little Ben, his parents discover that he is ravenously hungry, demanding, and brutal, and possesses abnormal strength, and suddenly their whole world becomes nightmare.

Having once given up the man she loved because of family objections, Anne Elliot must come to terms with her feelings when years later they meet again.

"Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup-the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex-all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even...