Love the One You're With, by Emily Giffin

Revisiting the road not travelled and looking up the one that got away has become all too common in the era of the book of face, often with mixed results. Newlywed Ellen faces the choice between the temptation of passion past and the contentment of a stable present, complicated by the ties of friendship and family and the pull of career. Emily Giffin’s characters are flawed, as well as relatable, but her later novels are less edgy, more conservative than her early successes, Something Borrowed and Something Blue. While the outcome of Love the One You’re With is predictable, the route there at least teeters on the edge of interesting.