Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street, her husband
Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The happily
married couple head into New York's 1980s gold rush, awash with
prospects and promise, where the best and brightest vie with the worst
and most craven for riches, fame and the love of beautiful people. But
the Calloways soon discover that what goes up must come crashing down,
both on Wall Street and at home. Brightness Falls captures
lives-in-the-making: men and women confronting adulthood with wit and
low behaviour, fear and confusion, and, just occasionally, a little
honesty and decency.