This is a beautiful book.

Rachel, known as Rocky, is a fifty-four year old mother to Willa and Jamie who are in their early twenties. 

Rocky, the kids and her husband Nick are spending a summer week in Cape Cod at the same place they've gone to every year since the children were young. Jamie's girlfriend Maya is accompanying them along with Rocky's elderly parents.

Rocky is going through the menopause and being at the beach house forces her to remember times from the past and new family secrets are revealed also. The novel touches on pregnancy loss, abortion, the midlife anxiety that Rocky experiences being sandwiched between adult children who don't need her as much as they used to and her parents who are becoming more frail.

I really enjoyed this novel and everything that it explored, despite probably not being the target audience as a thirty-two year old. I did however get in my feels as I related it to my own two children growing up.

Rocky is an interesting character who I didn't particularly love but it made her seem very real.