The Wanderers

Abe is a prizewinning novelist living in Brooklyn with a devoted wife, two children, and what looks like a charmed existence. But he’s plagued by a quiet suspicion: What if he’s living the wrong life? His wife Sophie, also a writer, is trying to hold their marriage together while managing her own disappointments. When Abe begins an unexpected email correspondence with a famous actress, he finds himself pulled into a connection that awakens something in him he can’t quite explain.

Across the city, Esther and Schmuli - newly married members of a Hasidic Jewish community - are beginning a life bound by tradition. But as Esther dares to imagine something more, both couples find themselves confronting the same essential questions: Can we rewrite the stories we’ve been told? Or are we forever shaped by the ones we’ve inherited?

With poignancy, humour and lyrical precision, Anna Ziegler (Photograph 51, Actually) explores the nature of love, belief, trust, and what it means to be the author of your own life.