A brilliant new novel of family life from one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists and the winner of the James Tait Black Award: Ben Markovits.

'Elegant and absorbing.' Guardian
'A book to be savoured.' Observer
'Intimate, funny . . . Masterfully done.' Daily Mail
'Sophisticated and engrossing.' Literary Review

Paul is a mid-ranking tennis professional on the ATP tour. His girlfriend Dana is an ex-model and photographer, and together with their two-year-old son they form a tableau of the contented upper-middle-class New York family. But Paul's parents and siblings have come to stay in the build-up to the US Open, and with summer storms brewing, several generations of domestic tension are brought to boiling point . . .