Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them... An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel for readers of 'Conversations with Friends'.