The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life is a novel by the British playwright, novelist and Oscar nominated screenwriter William Nicholson.

Laura, the central character, lives happily enough with her husband and children, until a long forgotten lover comes back into her life.

As the story unfolds we find that everyone in the Sussex village where the novel is set, lives with their own inner dramas.

The hidden feelings of a large cast of characters are interwoven to form a plot that attempts to reveal the intensity with which ordinary lives are led.

Sometimes serious, at others sublime, it tries to answer the central question, how much happiness we should expect from life.