Barbara and Siena - two women living fifty years apart. Both constrained by choice; one has too little and one has too much.
Siena, a 21st century woman, has so far managed to avoid the tick of the biological clock - her high-powered career as a stylist, making over a succession of tired, fraught housewives, has given her a horror of the toll a family can take on a woman. Without children she can control her own wonderful, ordered life. Only thing is, her husband Charlie longs for a baby...
In 1960, Barbara has been married to Ryder, an airline pilot, for twenty-four years. Her life revolves around running her home and keeping Ryder happy. She thinks she ought to be happy too. Then she meets the young and charming Alexander who reawakens a desire she thought had been long buried.
The intimate, inner lives of two women - destined never to meet, yet strangely linked - are woven together as they struggle to find resolution - between the families they love and their own desires.
I didn't connect with either of the women. One who had been a housewife with a loving husband who had a fling with a younger man. The other a career woman who obsessed on clothes and shoes and putting her career before her husband or relationship. I kept waiting for what the connection between the two women would be. In the last chapter it turned out to be a clock. Very disappointing and not at all what I expected.
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