State Of The Union

 State Of The Union was written by Nick Hornby, a British author and playwright. Each of the ten chapters is a conversation between a husband and wife while he has a beer and she has a glass of white wine before their marriage counseling appointment. I was surprised how much I could learn about a relationship in just snippets once a week. The book is slim and 90 per cent of it is witty banter between Tom and Louise. Sometimes they talk about the previous session or the  couple they see leaving the counselor's office before they enter. Sometimes they just bounce ideas back and forth like a ping pong ball. In listening to them talk to each other, I could feel the irritation and the loving respect they had between them.