Isabel's Bed - Paperback

by Elinor Lipman (Author)

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 Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based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.

Author Biography

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.