'Warm, wise, witty, and just plain fun' Maggie Shipstead At a perfectly ordinary cocktail party, Francis is introduced to Billy and - although it slips right by him at the time - he falls in love with her at once. Billy is a serious, often glum pe
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'Warm, wise, witty, and just plain fun' Maggie Shipstead At a perfectly ordinary cocktail party, Francis is introduced to Billy and - although it slips right by him at the time - he falls in love with her at once. Billy is a serious, often glum pe
'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 bre
'Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood' New Yorker Polly has been the house pet to several families: friendly, cheerful, good with children, happy to bask in the domesticity of other people's lives - until she meets Gilbert. Cordy, raised w
'Seriously wise, seriously wonderful, seriously comic - your life will be richer for it' Katherine Heiny Guido and Vicent - third cousins and best friends - spend their time lolling around and wondering who they will marry. Then, one wet Sunday af
'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:
'Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected' Nigella Lawson Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing fo
With a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by "a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welcome companion as she chatters on about the small c
Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, the acclaimed author of Happy All the Time delivers a beloved cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. - With a foreword by Ruth Reichl. "As muc
A modern classic first published in 1978 that is as much a sophisticated romantic comedy about the love between two partners as it is a novel about the powerful bonds shared by family members, friends, colleagues and confidants. "A funny, loving, cel