Melissa has attended a poetry performance staged by Frances and Bobbi. Frances and Bobbi are bisexual students in college. Melissa requests the two girls to take their pictures to feature them in a magazine she is working on. The two girls agreed. Melissa is married to an actor called Nick. Being gay, Bobbi is interested in Melissa. Besides, Nick and Frances are having a secret affair. Nick invites Frances to watch him perform a play called Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Nick’s performance makes Frances happy. After the play, Nick and Frances start exchanging emails. At some point, Melissa is having a birthday party, and Nick and Frances kiss one another.
Melissa is tasked to go to London for job responsibilities. Frances takes this opportunity to sleep with Nick. The affair between Nick and Frances becomes an on-again, off-again relationship. When Frances breaks up with Nick, he revives her relationship with Bobbi. Melissa comes to learn about their relationship. However, she is not bitter because she is also having a relationship with Bobbi. Among the characters, Frances seems cunning and intellect. Together with Bobbi, they have been raised in poor backgrounds. In contrast, Melissa and her husband are rich.
The book embraces a need for friendship, love, and fondness. Frances and Nick are entangled, but Frances is always ironic. Nick deeply cares for Frances despite their regular break-ups. He treats her well. However, Frances is also deeply in love, but she tries as much as possible to hide her feelings. Even when she is sleeping with Nick, Frances sounds as if she is disinterested in their affair. But, by confessing that Nick is the first man to sleep with her, shows how deeply she in love because Nick is a married man. The book shows the importance of love and friendship.
