Paperback edition of the novel which follows a group of friends struggling to fit together when their lives haven't gone as planned. Pays homage to the Guy de Maupassant story "The Necklace". With appeal to fans of "One Day, The Marriage Plot" and "Then We Came To The End".

Sloane is a regular contributor to the New York Times and has also written for the Guardian, Elle, GQ and the Wall Street Journal. Her essay collections, I Was Told There¿d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number, were New York Times bestsellers. She lives in New York and THE CLASP is her first novel.