This book reminds me "testament à l'anglaise' from Jonathan Coe. It's the story of a young man who lives in the suburb of London. It's a hard place to live. The violence is omnipresent and the moral rules are different from the ones we are use to have....

I think it's what is been called “chick literature”. The story is very simple: a housewife –Maggie- got bored at home, her husband worked too much. She met an old classmate she always admired because she was so beautiful and so brilliant. This classmate...