This Beautiful Life

By: Helen Schulman

Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward

When the Bergamots move to a new well-to-do neighbourhood, they're unsure how well they'll adapt. Soon though, Richard is consumed by his new role and Liz is hectically playing mother to 4-year-old Coco and 15 year-old Jake. But the day Jake unthinkingly forwards his friends a sexually-explicit email from a young girl is the last day of the Bergamots' comfortable existence.

Faced with impossible choices, what Richard and Liz do next risks destroying not only their marriage, their daughter, and their place in the community, but also Jake - the child they have set out to protect.

©2012 Helen Schulman (P)2012 Audible Ltd

Critic reviews

"This Beautiful Life stylishly dramatises the effect of new technologies on old moralities." (The Guardian)

"Helen Schulman’s novel about the catastrophic consequences of one reflex action is firmly based in The Slap territory. That bestseller was a crude, overlong attempt at exposing state of the nation mores; this is its subtle, erudite, and terse counterpart." (The Telegraph)

"… as much as this book fiercely inhabits our shared online reality, it operates most powerfully on a deeper level, posing an enduring question about American values — is it worth leaving a perfectly good life to grab a chance for something more?" (The New York Times)