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    Family Happiness

    Laurie Colwin

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    'If you've ever been in a relationship with another person, if you've ever had a family, you need to read this book' Ann Patchett

    Polly Solo-Miller Demarest is the perfect flower of the Solo-Miller family.

    The Solo-Millers have everything: looks, brains, money, a strong, fortified sense of clan, and branches in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, as well as London, just like a banking house.

    And Polly, along with Henry Demarest, a big handsome lawyer, has a beautiful household of her own and two nice, sturdy children.

    But one day - completely unexpectedly - she finds herself entangled in a sweet yet painful love affair with a painter, who loves her in the specific and allows her to cry freely in front of him. Suddenly all the values she has lived by are called into question.

    From Laurie Colwin, the ultimate chronicler of the human heart, comes a novel about a woman tired of being taken for granted - and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms.

    A W&N Essential with an introduction by Lisa Owens

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    Praise for Family Happiness

    • Charming, hilarious and, I believe, a truly perfect novel. Did I mention that it's also highly feminist and deeply subversive? - Joanna Rakoff

    • Deliciously sharp, funny, fearless, graceful and full of charm - Francesca Segal

    • If anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin - San Francisco Chronicle

    • 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 - Daisy Buchanan

    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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