Much male angst in tale of modern marital mores

What does it mean to be in a fulfilling relationship? Why do men and women stray? One might imagine a laptop-tapping Carrie Bradshaw musing over such questions from a perch in her Upper East Side townhouse.

William Nicholson’s latest Sussex-set novel inhabits quite a different universe to the glamorous Manhattan of Sex and the City, but its broad concerns are not dissimilar.

Adventures in Modern Marriage follows three interconnected families in the week ...