Books like Various Pets Alive and Dead

This was the first Marina Lewycka novel that I read.The book is made up of four points of view: Doro and Marco (although his voice is heard mostly in the epilogue), hippies of sorts who lived in a commune; their son, Serge, who's pretending to finish a Math PhD, but is working as an analyst in London, making lots of money playing on the stock market; his sister Clara, three years his senior and who works as a primary school teacher in Doncaster. I enjoyed some of the musings on the life in the commune, the youth's idealism and strong convictions. I also liked the juxtaposition of the poorer, working class, Doncaster, with the rich, fancy London. Sometimes, Lewycka was bogged down in too many pedagogic details about trading shares and the financial markets - I was bored.There were all sort of side plots and little mysteries. At times, I lost track, of who was who and how they were connected to the story.For an easy read, this seemed much longer than it actually was.I liked it enough, but I didn't love it, ergo the 3 stars.