The Way Men Act
By (Author) Elinor Lipman
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
1st April 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
352
Width 127mm, Height 196mm, Spine 24mm
248g
No one writes like Elinor Lipman; her novels are heart-warming, life-affirming, funny, sharp and wise. And in The Way Men Act she turns her attention to small-town life, and to trying to fall in love when everyone is watching
Melinda is a florist. She doesn't want to be. She never intended to come home to Harrow, Massachusetts and, if she did, she planned to be married with a great job, not single and designing her former classmates' wedding bouquets. What's worse, why does she care so much that her sort-of friend Libby has set her sights on a fellow shopkeeper She doesn t have a crush on handsome, chivalrous Dennis herself. Does sheElinor Lipman's previous novels include THEN SHE FOUND ME, ISABEL'S BED and THE INN AT LAKE DEVINE. Four of her novels are currently in development as feature films. She divides her time between Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City