April Epner teaches high school Latin, wears flannel jumpers, and is used to having her evenings free. Bernice Graverman brandishes designer labels, favors toad-sized earrings, and hosts her own tacky TV talk show: Bernice G!But behind the glitz and ...
Melinda LeBlanc, at 30, makes an untriumphant return to Harrow, Massachusetts, her recently gentrified hometown. She’s unmarried, romanced out, designing wedding bouquets for old classmates who hadn't known a fraction of her early popularity. So wh...
A “warm, affecting tale” (People) about a ghostwriter learning lessons in life and love from her eccentric and viviacious subject.When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug’s bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity bi...
A novel of sparkling social mischief from the beloved author of Ms. Demeanor and Every Tom, Dick & Harry.This "tale of delicious revenge" (USA Today) is also "a punchy little comedy of manners.... Think Jane Austen in the Catskills" (Chicago Trib...
From the beloved author of Ms. Demeanor and Every Tom, Dick & Harry comes a darkly romantic comedy of manners that confirms Elinor Lipman's appointment to the Jane Austen chair in modern American sensibility.Thirty unmarried years have passed sin...
With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of Ms. Demeanor and Every Tom, Dick & Harry explores what it means to return home and find light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past in a dazzling novel about golf, love, and DNA....
In this well-tuned, witty, and altogether wonderful novel, the beloved author of Ms. Demeanor and Every Tom, Dick & Harry dares to ask: Can an upper-middle-class doctor find love with a shady, fast-talking salesman?Meet Alice Thrift, surgical int...
Born and raised in a college dorm and chafing under the care of "the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization," Frederica Hatch is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug. But then, into this cozy but claustro...
A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer's well-ordered life. They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a...
Two sisters recover from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhattan apartment Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband, Edwin, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces ...
An endearing romantic comedy from the beloved best-selling author of The Family Man and The View from Penthouse B At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her a...
For longtime fans and new readers alike, Read, Love, Repeat: Three Novels by Elinor Lipman collects three beloved works (My Latest Grievance, The Family Man, The View from Penthouse B) by the “enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exc...
The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school year...
“Readers who are hungry for heartwarming comedy and spicy D.C. gossip will find Lipman’s new novel absolutely delicious.” -- New York Times Book Review A mischievous political satire, with a delightful cast of characters, from o...
Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor“Ms. Demeanor is a complete and utter delight. Of course it is. What Elinor Lipman novel isn’t?” -- Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are . . .“Who knew house arrest c...
From the author of Ms. Demeanor -- one of the most beloved comedic writers of our time -- comes a charming, laugh-out-loud tale of love and criminality, a pitch-perfect romantic comedy.“Over the course of more than thirty years and at least fifteen...