Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew?

On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting.

Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and Goodman has disappeared. Only Ethan and Ash, now married, have remained true to their adolescent dreams and have become shockingly successful too. As the groups fortunes tilt precipitously, their friendships are put under the ultimate strain of envy and crushing disappointment.

The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzers writing are extraordinary andThe Interestingsbrings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level Jeffrey Eugenides

Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, most recentlyThe Uncoupling(tingles with playfulness and wicked observationIndependent) andThe Wife(has you howling with recognition Allison Pearson),The Position(one of the best and most human books Ive read all year Erica Wagner) andThe Ten-Year Nap(as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike'Chicago Tribune). She is married with two sons and lives in New York City.

A heartbreaking, panoramic tragicomedy and a big American novel from bestseller Meg Wolitzer