Lara Feigel

Custody by Lara Feigel is described by Tessa Hadley as 'An absorbing and heart-breaking study, opening a window into the past and urgently contemporary at the same time'. We think that our children belong to us, but families are fragile things.

'A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women' Rachel Cusk The five of them – Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena, and Polly – met at university, their lives full of lazy afternoons and late nights. Friendship seemed simple and there was such pleasure in the endless talk and...