Isabel's Bed - by Elinor Lipman (Paperback)

About the Book

"A marvelous, quirky novel" ("The Boston Globe") by the author of "Then She Found Me". When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered in sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Now Harriet is about to get a lesson in life from this eccentric woman, whose autobiography she is ghostwriting.

Book Synopsis

A "warm, affecting tale" (People) about a ghostwriter learning lessons in life and love from her eccentric and viviacious subject.

When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blond's scandalous tabloid past. Unusually "talented" in the man department, Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a nonstop soap opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole and the attitude is catching.

Review Quotes

Chicago Tribune If Jane Austen had been born about two centuries later...chances are she'd have written like Elinor Lipman.... One of the last of the urbane romantics.

People A warm, affecting tale about one smart woman letting go of her dumb choices and fumbling toward love....

San Francisco Chronicle Delightful....Engaging....The perfect companion....After a short while, these characters become more vivid than one's own friends.

Carolyn See The Washington Post Book World By about page ten of this novel, the reader gets a...grin on his face, and that grin doesn't really stop for about a week.

About the Author

Elinor Lipman is the author of the novels The Way Men Act and Then She Found Me, and a collection of short stories Into Love and Out Again.

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, she lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and son.