Juliet and Liam and their 5 year old son Charlie move into her mother's home after her death. Juliet works in PR and Liam is a writer who has been struggling for years to write the difficult second novel. As they get to know the inhabitants of the street, he sees their troubled marriages, their struggles with parenting and their sense of competition with one another as potential literary gold. However as he gets closer to the Mums in the street, it puts a strain on his own marriage.

I really enjoyed this, although I can see it wouldn't be to everyone's taste. So it's one of those books that I loved personally but am hesitant to recommend. The joy of the novel is mostly in the observation of middle class parents of primary school aged children. If you enjoyed Big Little Lies, this is similar in tone but it has a smaller, gentler plot (as the title indicates, no one dies!). I found it funny, warm and insightful. There were elements of every one of the marriages that I could relate to, and there were characters and behaviours that I absolutely recognised from when my own kids were at primary school.