My Latest Grievance

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'When I was born in 1961, it was to instant campus celebrity.'

Frederica Hatch, the charming, precocious child of sweetly bonkers parents, has an idyllic if spoilt childhood in the grounds of the small, not very good, Dewing college. Everything is perfect - and then she discovers that her father has a secret. Worse still, his secret has a name: the glamorous and untrustworthy Laura Lee French, his estranged wife. And worst of all, Laura Lee's new job at Dewing is going to shatter the Hatches' little world.

Reviews

"'Lipman dishes up her tart, witty tales without sugary sentiment... If you've not yet encountered Elinor Lipman, then you're in for a treat' Daily Mail; 'Hilarious...utterly addictive. Imagine, if you can, a cross between Philip Roth and Melissa Bank' Maggie O'Farrell, Independent on Sunday; 'A jewel... brings together the rare combination of intelligence, wit and wisdom' Carol Shields; 'The sort of novelist you want to tell your friends about... The wit and warmth of Lipman's small cast read like a particularly good episode of Friends crossed with ER, but the elegance of her prose and her wisdom concerning the human heart elevate it to serious literature' Amanda Craig, The Times"

Author Bio

'Just occasionally you come across a writer whose sentences are so perfect, you want to swill them around in your mouth as you read, just to savor their deliciousness. Elinor Lipman is just such a writer. When you read a book you love, you both want to gallop through it and yet never finish it... Lipman has been described as a latterday Jane Austen - I'd go along with that' Nigella LawsonElinor Lipman's sharp, funny, life-enhancing fiction is loved by readers everywhere, and by writers as varied as Anita Shreve, Maggie O'Farrell and Carol Shields. Four of her novels are currently in development as feature films, including Then She Found Me", which will star Helen Hunt, Bette Midler and Colin Firth. She divides her time between Massachusetts and New York City.