THE CHANGE ROOM

Happily married, great career, mother of two. What more could a woman possibly want? Enter The Change Room, by award-winning writer Karen Connelly, and find out.

As Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert so aptly put it, “Love is always complicated.” In The Change Room, the winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for New Fiction dives head first into the deep waters of these complications, and offers up an addictively readable domestic drama about a happily married, city-dwelling mom with two fabulous kids, a successful career, a satisfying social life – and an emerging midlife crisis that surfaces when she falls for a woman in the change room at the local pool.

Eliza's loving yet complex relationships with her husband and young children – and with the unending list of household chores that fill her days – will be instantly recognizable to readers, as will her anxieties about aging. Eliza suffers from those oh so common modern maladies, Lack of Time and Too Much Domestic Grind.

An entertaining, gutsy, and beautifully written novel about the inescapable pull of the erotic, The Change Room offers a rare and intimate glimpse into a contemporary woman's domestic and sexual life.

KAREN CONNELLY's debut novel, The Lizard Cage, won Britain's Orange Broadband Prize for New Fiction. She is the author of nine books of award-winning non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, the most recent being Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, a memoir about her experiences in Burma and on the Thai-Burma border. Married with a young child, she divides her time between homes in rural Greece and Toronto.