The Heights

The Heights is about a couple, Kate and Tim, and the impact the arrival of a new neighbor has on their life. Tim is a teacher and Kate a stay-at-home mother when they meet Anna, a woman who seems to have it all. When Kate is offered to go back to work, Tim decides it's high time he works on his dissertation and it's his turn to stay home with their two sons. Anna is about to teach them what is important in life...

The novel is written in short chapters, alternating between Kate and Tim as narrator, with some incursions from other characters. I so wanted to love that novel, but it never really reached my expectations... some scenes sounded so real (especially scenes with and about the kids) while some other situations were cliché and “felt wrong”.