After the Party. Lisa Jewell. 2010.

It’s eleven years since Jen Catterick and Ralph McLeary first got together, they thought it would be for ever, that they’d found their happy ending int. As everyone agrees, they were the perfect couple. 

Then two became four, a flat became a house. Romantic nights out became sleepless nights in. And they soon found that life wasn’t quite so simple anymore. But through it all Jem and Ralph still loved each other, of course they did. 

Now the unthinkable has happened. Two people who were so right together are starting to drift apart. And in the chaos of family life, Ralph feels more and more as if he’s standing on the sidelines, and Jem that she’s losing herself. Something has to change. As they try to find a way back to each other, back to what they once had, they both become momentarily distracted - but maybe it’s not too late to recapture happily ever after.