Laurie Colwins beautiful final book A Big Storm Knocked It Over 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 Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It 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 A Big Storm Knocked It Over stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fictions most original and beloved voices. 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.
