Big Storm Knocked It Over

<p><strong>Laurie Colwin's beautiful final book <em>A Big Storm Knocked It Over</em> is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness--a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world. -- Maile Meloy author of <em>Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It</em></strong></p><p><strong>In her fifth and final novel acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship motherhood and careers as experienced by a cast of delightfully idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful sophisticated modern romance <em>A Big Storm Knocked It Over</em> stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction's most original and beloved voices.</strong></p><p>In her late thirties Jane Louise Parker has just married a man whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune. After the wedding she returns to work at a small and tony publishing house whose finances are in disarray. Alongside her best friend Edie Jane Louise patiently waits to become pregnant wondering if a baby will provide a sense of rootedness that still seems to elude her. When that longed-for child arrives it transforms the Parkers' lives in a way that is as unexpected as it is rapturous. </p><br/>