'A tender and hopeful story that shows how, with friendship and the occasional little act of rebellion, there can still be laughter after tragedy'--Daily Mail

'He is a brilliant social commentator and a wit for our time'--TLS

'Very smart. And horribly entertaining'--John Sutherland, FT Magazine

Roger is a middle-aged and divorced 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet. His co-worker Bethany is facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes. Then Bethany discovers Roger's notebook and finds that he's writing diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he's getting it right. Bethany and Roger strike up a secret correspondence, and as it unfolds so too do the characters of Roger's work-in-progress, Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.