Brother of the More Famous Jack: Barbara Trapido

Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly suburban - doesn`t know how her life will change when the brilliant Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she enters the Goldmans` rambling bohemian home, presided over by the beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are everything she has been waiting for.

But when a romantic entanglement ends in tears, Katherine is forced into exile from the family she loves most. And her journey back into the fold, after more than a decade away, will yield all kinds of delightful surprises...