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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.
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Praise for A Big Storm Knocked it Over
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A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction, and affection - New YorkerA 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 worldThis 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 WeeklyI'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
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