Fates and Furies

Every tale has a backstory. There are two sides to every relationship. And sometimes, it seems that a marriage's secrets—rather than its truths—are what make it wonderful. Lauren Groff tells the twenty-four-year chronicle of one such marriage at the centre of this rich, broad, multilayered book.

Lotto and Mathilde are tall, gorgeous, deeply in love, and bound for glory at the age of twenty-two. Ten years later, their marriage continues to be the talk of their acquaintances, but we realise with a jolting sense of excitement that things are far more intricate and amazing than they first seem to be.