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Standard Deviation

`I have rarely seen modern marriage reproduced so faithfully in print. It`s about love once the early romance has subsided. Hilarious` Jojo Moyes, Woman and Home `Standard Deviation is a marvel` Kate Atkinson `Addictive reading` Mail on Sunday `A comic masterpiece` Observer A divinely funny novel about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raising children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not taken. Graham Cavanaugh`s second wife, Audra, is everything his first wife was not. She considers herself privileged to live in the age of the hair towel, talks non-stop through her epidural, labour and delivery, invites the doorman to move in and the eccentric members of their son`s Origami Club to Thanksgiving. She is charming and spontaneous and fun but life with her can be exhausting. In the midst of the day-to-day difficulties and delights of marriage and raising a child with Asperger`s, his first wife, Elspeth, reenters Graham`s life. Former spouses are hard to categorize – are they friends, enemies, old flames, or just people who know you really, really well? Graham starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did he make the right choice? Is there a right choice?