Just read it.Outstanding Matt HaigTo say I love this book is an understatement.It moved me to tears Reese WitherspoonBeautifully written completely charming and extremely wise on the subject of adolescence and influence Nick HornbyEveryone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer how Isabelle the last of the Richardson children had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights a placid progressive suburb of Cleveland everything is meticulously planned from the layout of the winding roads to the colours of the houses to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.Enter Mia Warren an enigmatic artist and single mother who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl and rents a house from the Richardsons.