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    A Big Storm Knocked it Over

    Laurie Colwin

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    '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 their own particular way.

    A W&N Essential

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    Praise for A Big Storm Knocked it Over

    • A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction, and affection - New Yorker

    • A funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness - a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world

    • This is Colwin's most mature novel, her most deeply felt (but characteristically light-fingered) domestic fairy tale for adults . . . Colwin speculates about marriage and families and friendships, about differences between the sexes, and about such existential questions as "Were other people ever, ever knowable?" All of this is expressed in witty, accurate dialogue and graceful prose, and with inimitable charm - Publishers Weekly

    • I've never met a Laurie Colwin book I didn't want to live in. She sees us at our most vulnerable and our most hopeful

    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin

    Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) was born in Manhattan and raised in Long Island, Chicago and Philadelphia. She attended Bard College and Columbia University and worked as a translator and book editor before selling her first story, at the age of twenty-five, to the New Yorker. She went on to publish eight critically acclaimed works of fiction and two beloved collections of essays and recipes - Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 'if anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin.

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