"It's all wonderful fun. Lipman sketches her characters' foibles with amused affection and moves the plot forward with practiced ease." – Washington Post Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husba...

The untimely death of her single mother, Margaret Batten, brings Sunny back to small-town King George, New Hampshire, the scene of her unhappy, tormented adolescence, where she discovers old family secrets, unexpected alliances, and a...

When her mother receives a notice about a Vermont inn that caters especially to non-Jewish guests, Natalie Marx becomes obsessed with the once-restricted, family-owned resort and wangles an invitation to join a friend on a vacation th...

A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long a...

Hilarious. Sharp. Funny. Lovable. These are just samples of the countless words of praise for Elinor Lipman’s My Latest Grievance. This lively campus farce features the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the “Eloise of De...

Thirty years after abandoning his intended bride at their engagement party, a charming Harvey Nash shows up on the doorstep of his former fiancTe and her sisters, all spinsters, and soon discovers that scorned women do not make the mo...

"Lipman is always in top form as an essayist." – New York Times Book Review In her two decades of writing, Elinor Lipman has populated her fictional universe with characters so utterly real that we feel like they're old f...

“Light and tight, On Turpentine Lane is constructed with an almost scary mastery.”—New York Times Book Review“A diverting delight.”—People “[Lipman] has a way of crafting books so utterly charming that you want to set ...