Liz Burski

It's very different from speaking to people face

at a distance to be in a house in the Blue Mountains with them, just the four of you, and living together on a day-to-day basis.

So, yes, there's some blood spilt.

There's some firm arguments.

There's a lot of confessional stuff.

It's a sort of turning point for all of them.

At least that's how I've intended it.

Yeah, that's a really good question.

A really good question.

I found this a very confusing and awkward book, I must say.

It's the story of a family, Ben and Addie, who are the parents.

Ben is a lawyer in the State Department in Washington and

And, of course, it's the McCarthy era, and so he is a bit jittery about whether he's – he knows he's not going to be brought before McCarthy's committee, but he will probably lose his job.

So that's the tension that the couple are working with.

And his wife is a former social worker.

They have two children, Jake and Becca.

And when the story opens, they're heading off on a journey from Alexandria near Washington to Huntington on Long Island.

And they're going to stay there with Addie's parents, Morris and Pearl, have spent the summer there.

Ben is going to commute at weekends.

And they're also thinking of moving there.