The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. Shes still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, shes with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudys womb.