Music – largely popular songs from the 1960s and 1970s – features heavily in the book, and the publishers provide a playlist intended to enhance the reading experience.

[3] Adam Sharp is an English information technology consultant and part-time piano player, in a settled but tired long-term relationship with Claire.

After their email interactions develop into a long-distance affair, Adam decides to leave Claire and accept an invitation to spend a week with Angelina and her husband Charlie at their vacation home in France.

[4][5] Vocab Films optioned rights to The Best of Adam Sharp — including a screenplay also by Simsion — in May, 2017 with Toni Collette attached to play the role of Angelina.

The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald praised it as "a dark comedy of manners, an adult entertainment that extends the range of his first, more light-hearted book";[7] The Daily Review’s positive assessment commented that it had the tight edge of a Woody Allen film and that "some of it is quite lovely and moving; some of it is funny and much of it is unsettling.