EVERYTHING SHE THOUGHT SHE WANTED No one has captured the complexities of marriage at middle age better than Elizabeth Buchan.  Now she is back with another irresistibly entertaining and thoughtful tale of two women at the  crossroads”of love, of freedom”who wonder, Where does happiness lie?  It is the summer of 1959 when forty-two-year-old Barbara Beeching, a married mother of two  grown-up children, meets Alexander Liberty. Adored by her family and admired by her friends,  Barbara never imagined that an unexpected, tender, and surprisingly passionate affair with a  much younger man was on the horizon. Will she allow it to destroy the only life she™s ever  known? Forty years later, thirty-five-year-old Siena Grant is at a very different crossroads. Immersed in  her challenging career as a television fashion consultant, Siena does not believe that happiness  requires having children. But her husband, Charlie, disagrees. Can Siena give Charlie the family  life he craves without sacrificing her ambition or well-ordered life? Or will children give her a kind  of joy she™s never experienced before?  Decades separate Barbara and Siena”years in which the lives of women and the battle of the  sexes have changed substantially. Or have they?