About the book: 2019 / One Sunday evening, assistant prosecutor Albert Cousins ​​left his wife and children at home and, grabbing a bottle of gin, went to see Francis Keating, a colleague whom he almost didn't know, to a party to which no one invited him. Albert did not intend to kiss Beverly, the owner's wife - everything happened by itself. But this event ended up destroying two marriages and forever changing the lives of four adults and six children. In one of her best novels, the master of deep psychological prose, Anne Patchett, talks about how their destinies unfolded over the next fifty years.