![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually Bert and Beverly leave their spouses, marry and move to Virginia, where their six children come together each summer.Ĭommonwealth crosscuts between the lives of the Keating and Cousins families over the next five decades, as tragedy strikes and life unfolds. Handsome Bert kisses beautiful Beverly, sparking an affair that splits and reconfigures their families. With the help of Bert’s gin, everyone gets drunk and many lives are changed. They barely know each other, but Bert wants an excuse to escape a home with three small children and a pregnant wife. Bert Cousins is a lawyer in the Los Angeles district attorney’s office Fix Keating is a local cop. An unexpected guest turns up, with a large bottle of gin in lieu of an invitation. A nn Patchett’s seventh novel begins in the early 1960s, at Beverly and Fix Keating’s christening party for their daughter Franny. ![]()
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