by ElinorLipman (Author)
'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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 08 Feb 2007
ISBN 10: 0755329422
ISBN 13: 9780755329427
Book Overview: 'A jewel...brings together the rare combination of intelligence, wit and wisdom' Carol Shields
Elinor Lipman`s sharp, funny, life-enhancing fiction is loved by readers everywhere, and by writers as varied as Anita Shreve and Nigella Lawson, Maggie O`Farrell and Carol Shields. Her novels include The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabel`s Bed and The Way Men Act. Lipman`s novel Then She Found Me was the basis for a major film of the same name, released in 2008.
She lives in New York.