Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover—a married man Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with—motherhood Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes—until a ghost from her past turns up At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at , the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed. In , Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.