How close can we come to love, success, happiness, forgiveness? Through twelve stories, some stand-alone, others woven with linked characters, Jessica Francis Kane, author of The Report (Portobello Books, 2012), questions the tensions between friendship and neighbourliness, home and travel, family and ambition. In writing filled with wit and humour and incredible poignancy, she deftly reveals the everyday patterns that, over time, can swerve a life off course.