Jane has the ideal life: loving husband, beautiful house and delightful son. Her fashionable dinner parties are perfect - and so are her secret assignations with her neighbour's husband, Jay. From Tracey and her 'New Money' lottery winnings to eccentric artist Philip and his pornographic portraits, the residents of North London's most privileged enclave The Square are a very satisfied bunch.To raise money for communal fencing, the Residents' Association decides to hold a Talent Show, produced by Jane and hosted by TV celebrity Alan Makin. But when the show lurches into public disarray, reputations are shattered and everyone has to learn to live with a far less glossy reality than before.
Rosie Millard is a journalist and broadcaster. She was the BBC Arts correspondent for 10 years and has also been a profile writer at the Sunday Times News Review, arts editor of the New Statesman, theatre critic, columnist and feature writer. She makes TV and radio documentaries and appears on a variety of national TV shows. She is the Chair of Hull City of Culture 2017. She attended the UEA/Guardian Novel Writing Masterclass in 2013 where she wrote The Square, a modern comedy of manners. In 2009 she took her four children around the French speaking world for four months after which she wrote Bonnes Vacances. Her other non-fiction book, The Tastemakers, is an explanation of how the British public got turned onto contemporary art and was written during her time at the BBC.