Laurie Colwin

'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...

Peanuts is beloved by countless readers worldwide for its iconic characters—such as Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and Lucy van Pelt—gentle humour, and emotional resonance. The artist behind Peanuts is well-known, not just as a celebrity but also as a revered figure among critics and historians. He wrote and drew every strip in the newspaper comic's 50 years himself, reflecting the moral,...

A Big Storm Knocked it Over '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...

'Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives' Entertainment WeeklyCarl thinks that his wife Lucy tells him everything, until he discovers her secret daily habit. She has arranged a part of her life away from him and gone swimming in it. Patricia plays the same honky-tonk album over and over, while worrying that she'll never become any less young and heedless, any...

'Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood' New YorkerPolly 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 with the spartan, pleasure-rejecting habits of the very rich, cannot stomach the pleasures of his beloved Jane's cooking, her lavender soap,...

Breathtaking, moving and very funny - Brandon Taylor Olly is twenty-one when she first meets Sam Bax. Fearless, goofy and risk-taking, he arrives in her life on the back of a huge motorcycle. By the end of the day, the pair are kissing in an apple orchard. A year later, they are married. Five years after that, Sam has sailed...

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 person. An economic historian, she is indifferent to a great many things (clothes, food, home decor), frowns...

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 food and entertaining. From the humble hot-plate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Never before published in...