‘A love story for anyone who tends to overthink things’ Maile Meloy
In her late thirties, book designer Jane Louise Parker has started to worry she will never find someone to marry. Until she meets Teddy, whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune.
After their wedding, Jane Louise returns to work at a small publishing house, but struggles to think of herself as older, wiser, more grown-up.
Soon though she, along with her best friend Edie, will find out whether motherhood might just be the ultimate dividing line between youth and something else.
Laurie Colwin’s final novel joyfully explores friendship, love, marriage, motherhood and families created in your own particular way.
A W&N Essential
In her late thirties, book designer Jane Louise Parker has started to worry she will never find someone to marry. Until she meets Teddy, whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune.
After their wedding, Jane Louise returns to work at a small publishing house, but struggles to think of herself as older, wiser, more grown-up.
Soon though she, along with her best friend Edie, will find out whether motherhood might just be the ultimate dividing line between youth and something else.
Laurie Colwin’s final novel joyfully explores friendship, love, marriage, motherhood and families created in your own particular way.
A W&N Essential
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Reviews
A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction and affection
Laurie Colwin is the poet of married love
This novel makes the idea of happy endings for decent people seem entirely plausible - no small feat for a writer these days and no small pleasure for a reader
A love story for anyone who tends to overthink things
An infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you can
