Attachment Book

After more than twenty years of life in London, Jean and Mark Hubbard decamp to a remote tropical island in the Indian Ocean. But when Jean, a health columnist, discovers a salacious love letter addressed to her husband, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll of their mutual ease is over - and a new quest has just begun. Looking for answers, Jean goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and illuminating adventures of her own. Isabel Fonseca explores the impulses that color and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love.

The New York Times - Helen Schulman

Attachment is a confident, smart first novel about cultivated people with cool jobs and multiple homes, with a story that seems personal and deeply felt…Fonseca tells her story with such specificity and acuteness, and in such nicely rendered climes, that Jean's stumbles seem like news bulletins…Fonseca's cast is a bumbling crew of affectionate and selfish pleasure seekers, full of battered egos and insatiable needs—we may not always admire them, but they sure are interesting to watch.