Susan Seeger

After the death of his wife, former network correspondent Tom Nash leaves his career to raise his children and writes a column about ordinary people for a Chicago newspaper. His editor frequently tries to lure him back into hard news, while Tom adjusts to his new life in Wisconsin.

At night Mary is a party girl and by day she works at the New York Public Library with her godmother.

A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic.