Between Each Breath
By Adam Thorpe
Vintage £7.99, 419 pages
FT bookshop price: £6.39

For six years after the death of an unborn baby, Milly struggles to re-conceive while her husband Jack, a once promising composer, sees his career dwindle. The arrival of an Estonian woman with her five-year-old son, a musical prodigy, fractures their marriage with material evidence of Jack’s earlier adultery.