Chloe Zhivago's Recipe for Marriage and Mischief

The endearing debut from BBC documentarian Lichtenstein features 43-year-old psychotherapist Chloe Zhivago, living in Queen's Park, London, with her doctor husband, Greg, and their two adolescent children. Despite success on all fronts, Chloe and friend Ruth Zimmer are in marriage-career-mommy ruts and desperate to get in touch with their erotic selves. An enticing Russian, Ivan, seems to offer Chloe the spark she badly wants, while Ruth spirals downward after reaching the top of the corporate ladder. Add in misbehaving clients, Chloe's kook brother and wise father, a gay Czech au pair and recipes that nicely punctuate many chapters, and the results are poignantly comedic.