Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin - ISBN: 9781474615952
Paperback
Perfect life, unexpected love: Can family happiness truly take many forms?

Family Happiness

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    24 February 2025

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Summary

‘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 h…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474615952
ISBN-10:1474615953
Author:Laurie Colwin
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:24 February 2025
Weight:275g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 26mm
Series:W&N Essentials
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Utterly delightful … Sophisticated, funny, knowing,clear-eyed … and entirely affecting * Washington Post *Colwin writes with such sunny skill, and such tireless enthusiasm … One reads with fascination the steps by which lovers in one story after another stumble upon their forthright declarations – Joyce Carol Oates * New York Times Book Review *An infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you can – Emma StraubColwin wrings magic from ordinary lives * Entertainment Weekly *A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction, and affection * The New Yorker *

About The Author

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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