In a Good Place: A Novel

Mimi and her husband, Ralph, have left social climbing, pushy parenting, and their marital problems behind them in London in favor of perfect, bucolic tranquility. Or so they thought. What should be rural heaven turns out to be just as tricky to navigate as Notting Hill, even with Mimi's new best friend Rose -- Dorset's answer to Martha Stewart -- by her side.

While Honeyborne is thankfully free of prestigious preschools with waiting lists that begin in utero, it has its own fierce brand ...