The Big Love

Alison Hopkins is firmly, undoubtedly, and undeniably in love. She and Tom live together, they send wedding gifts as a unit, and, most important, they’re happy together—until the evening Tom goes out in the middle of a dinner party to buy some mustard and doesn’t come back. He calls Alison to say that he has fallen back in love with his ex-girlfriend Kate, the kind of woman about whom may say rhapsodically, “She’s like a drug.” How can Alison compete with that? She had always feared that Tom’s looks would land her in trouble—having a handsome boyfriend is like owning a white couch, an invitation to disaster,

But if Tom isn’t Alison’s Big Love, who is?