This is Where We Live

This is Where We Live

by JanelleBrown (Author)

Synopsis

Life is beautiful for Claudia and Jeremy. They are a young, bohemian couple whose hard work in both the film and music world is finally paying off. Claudia's first film is in the can and Jeremy and his band are going places. Now seems like the perfect time to settle down and buy a house. But this is summer 2008, and the credit crunch is round the corner. In a matter of weeks Claudia's film becomes a box-office flop, Jeremy's band stalls and - worst of all - they find themselves unable to pay the mortgage, with the bank threatening repossession. The life they've been dreaming of comes tumbling down around them. Claudia takes a teaching job in attempt to placate the bank, and suddenly everything their relationship has been built on looks precarious. Jeremy sees her 'selling out' as a betrayal of their bohemian values, and when his glamorous ex-girlfriend Aoki, a famous painter, returns to LA, Claudia starts to realise that her relationship is in danger of disintegrating unless she does something to save it...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 03 May 2012

ISBN 10: 009951768X
ISBN 13: 9780099517689
Book Overview: An unforgettable and powerful novel that will appeal to the massive Douglas Kennedy fan-base

Media Reviews
Wildly entertaining. -- San Francisco Chronicle Part social satire, part melodrama, part intimate domestic portrait, the book feels like a natural follow-up to [Janelle] Brown's bestselling 2008 debut. . . . Both books [are] page-turners. . . . Brown has an uncanny eye for contemporary characters and settings, and that's definitely part of the fun. -- Los Angeles Times Richly told . . . Maybe some wisdom can be gleaned from this recession after all. -- The Seattle Times Terrific . . . [a] withering satire. -- Real Simple
Author Bio
Janelle Brown is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist. Having spent four years as a senior writer at Salon, she currently writes for the New York Times and Vogue, amongst others. Her first novel, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything was published in 2009.