When I heard the premise of the book - a man breaking off an affair, and giving his mistress his wife's diary - I was intrigued. But this book misses it by a mile. It could have been a real story, about how people go astray after marriage, or the stress a new baby brings to a relationship. And how a happy couple changes with time in ways they didn't forsee. That's a real story. This is the quality of a romance novel where all the characters are good looking and perfect (but yet apparently not bright enough to use birth control). In the end it's a sappy story about dull people.