goes into the job with a vague idea of an art project and gets sucked into a friendship with Lady as the two bond over their mutual feelings of uncertainty and terrible mothers. S takes up the nanny job with Lady and uses it as an opportunity to be someone new, reinventing herself into the idea of her mother at her age. S ha always been artistic but after her college experience struggles with what that means for her and what makes art real. S is a recent graduate who wants to reinvent herself. After publishing her first book about raising her nonverbal son Seth, she was writing a follow up, one that was much more of a memoir. Lady has decided to hire a nanny for her son, Devin, after she separates from her husband, so that she can spend more of her time writing her book. S and Lady are both playing a careful game, and every move they make endangers the things they hold most dear.ĭarkly comic, twisty and tense, this mesmerizing new novel defies expectation and proves Edan Lepucki to be one of the most talented and exciting voices of her generation. Meanwhile, S is protecting secrets of her own, about her real motivation for taking the job. And as Lady and S move closer to one another, the glossy veneer of Lady’s privileged life begins to crack, threatening to expose old secrets that she has been keeping from her family. S performs her day job beautifully, quickly drawing the entire family into her orbit, and becoming a confidante for Lady.īut in the heat of the summer, S’s connection to Lady’s older son takes a disturbing, and possibly destructive, turn. In response to a Craigslist ad, S arrives, a magnetic young artist who will live in the secluded guest house out back, care for Lady’s toddler, Devin, and keep a watchful eye on her older, teenage son, Seth. Left alone with her children, she’s going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she’s ever going to finish her memoir. High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband.
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