Mitchell has given up his previous career as an accountant to work from home as a trader on the stock market. He enjoys cooking all the meals for his family: wife, Natasha and school-age daughters, Lara and Willow, while Natasha, a decorator, is working hard to make a success of her homewares store. They have a beautiful home, two upmarket cars and a dog called Angel.
All is not well, however. Mitchell is in all kinds of trouble with his trading, and the pressure of keeping their financial situation from Natasha is becoming overwhelming. Natasha is focused on her own business and trusts Mitchell to manage the family’s finances. She loves Mitchell and she’s sure he still loves her but because he is trading on international markets at all hours of the night and day she is seeing him less and less and even when she attempts to rekindle their former intimacy he turns away from her.
Enter Jesse, a good looking man making no secret of his interest in Natasha. Can a once peaceful, harmonious life be resurrected for Mitchell, Natasha and their daughters if a new dynamic is introduced, as long as there is total honesty about it? Does human nature work that way?
Looking out is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. It deals with a lot of serious issues in a world where ‘having it all’, financially, emotionally, physically, is the standard expectation.
Fiona McCallum has written a very clever, utterly absorbing book, not like anything I’ve read before. I couldn’t get out of bed this morning because I couldn’t put it down, even though my poor little dogs were looking trustingly at me, waiting for me to make a move, the cats having long jumped down from the bed and gone to see their dad.
I can sum up Looking Out in three words: wow, just wow!
Published by Harper Collins
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