I Am the Clay
by Chaim Potok | 
Honey for the Bears
by Anthony Burgess | 
Passion Play
by Jerzy Kosinski | 
A Word Child
by Iris Murdoch | 
Mr. Bridge
by Evan S. Connell | 
Brazil
by John Updike | 
Other People
by Martin Amis | 
Family and Friends
by Anita Brookner | 
Schmidt Delivered
by Louis Begley | 
Into the Great Wide Open
by Kevin Canty | 
Eminence
by Morris West | 
The Silent Lady
by Catherine Cookson | 
Leaving Eden
by Anne LeClaire |
The Seven Minutes
by Irving Wallace | 
The Pornographer's Poem
by Michael Turner |
Brother of the More Famous Jack
by Barbara Trapido | 
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult | 
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout | 
Don't Let Me Go
by Catherine Ryan Hyde |
Barbara Trapido is a brilliant novelist who has been delighting British readers for more than a decade. Here, the Whitbread Award-winning author of Brother of the More Famous Jack weaves a funny, sexy, and poignant story that begins with the death of a young woman and blossoms into an Austen-esque comedy of manners that explores the connections between friends, lovers, and families. With a switchback plot that shifts from Scotland to Rome, from London to the Cotswolds, Barbara Trapido's fifth novel is elegant, surprising, and peopled with wholly original characters whose extraordinary fates are at once uniquely hilarious and immensely touching.