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Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped to New York and meets Frank, a self-made success twenty years her senior whose life is full of the excesses she lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and a green card. Their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives and the lives of those close to them in unexpected ways. Set against a young and flashy New York, with interludes in Paris and Rome, this debut novel explores love, friendship, addiction and trauma.