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Laurel LefkowRuntime
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
'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
Praise for Family Happiness
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Charming, hilarious and, I believe, a truly perfect novel. Did I mention that it's also highly feminist and deeply subversive? - Joanna Rakoff
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Deliciously sharp, funny, fearless, graceful and full of charm - Francesca Segal
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If anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin - San Francisco Chronicle
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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 is the author of five novels - HAPPY ALL THE TIME, FAMILY HAPPINESS, GOODBYE WITHOUT LEAVING, A BIG STORM KNOCKED IT OVER and SHINE ON, BRIGHT AND DANGEROUS OBJECT - three collections of short stories - PASSION AND AFFECT, THE LONE PILGRIM and ANOTHER MARVELLOUS THING - and two collections of essays, HOME COOKING and MORE HOME COOKING. Laurie Colwin died in 1992.
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