Old college friends Richard and Mina meet again at a London party, four years after he abandoned his social circle to make a new life in the country with his sculptress wife, Diana.

Tentatively, then with increasing passion, they begin a long-distance romance – one which threatens both Richard's hard-won idyll, and the home and family to which Mina has devoted herself.

Accessible and forthright, Trouble is a very modern novel about relationships. Whether describing the landscape around Richard and Diana’s farm, or the pleasures and routine predicaments of adultery on his visits south, the dazzling prose of this assured debut expertly explores the hidden complexities and compulsions of contemporary lives.

Moving, honest, and often unexpectedly funny, Trouble depicts in forensic detail the destructive effect of an intense affair on two likeable and recognisable couples on the cusp of their forties.

Narrated by a slightly older and wiser Richard, the novel recalls his difficult year of living dangerously – together with the bliss, and the torment, of falling "for someone you shouldn’t have fallen in love with"...