Amanda Brookfield

Before I Knew You tells the unsettling story of what happens when two very different families swap houses across the Atlantic one August. William and Beth, newly-weds from Connecticut, need to visit London so that William can spend time with his three sons from his first marriage, while Sophie and Andrew, who have two teenage daughters, are looking for a holiday that might rescue them both from the daily grind and a gradual disintegration of their relationship.

When Janine and Dougie fell in love they thought it would be for ever.Fifteen years later their relationship is well and truly over, their daughter Stevie their one remaining connection.

Newly divorced twenty years after a passionate courtship and marriage, Esther's and Lucas's lives are veering off course, as are the inner worlds of their two grown-up children. But can a family ever really be sliced in two?