It took me a bit to engage with the characters in this book. I'm not a fan of the personalities displayed by any of the four main characters. A man my age is looking back at the relationship he and his wife had with another couple through the years. It seemed unrealistic to me in that in a time when bankers lost all their money due to being liable for the assets in their banks, one of the characters in this story is a trust fund recipient of a banker parent. Concern for social status, manipulating other people and needing to be in control are all issues that I don't have a great deal of respect for so I came away more annoyed than anything. The story ended abruptly in a way that wasn't expected.