Set over the week leading up to the 2015 General Election, this book revisits the characters from 'The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life'. Focusing on Henry and Laura Broad and their daughter Carrie, this is a minute dissection of relationships and what keeps them going. It is an acute and compassionate look at male mid-life crises, female sexual desire, death and the fear of it, children and the trouble with them - all the things we battle with every day.