Author: Mameve Medwed. I picked this up at Hudson Booksellers at JFK and I must say it's nice for a change to be reading a book that doesn't have Jane Austen in the title (not that I'm complaining; you know that I adore JA and especially Emma Woodhouse, my favorite heroine of all, full of faults and failings, as opposed to that prig Elizabeth Bennett!)
This is an adorable book, charming and funny, even though there are times you want to wring the neck of the heroine, Abigail Elizabeth Randolph, daughter of the "world-renowned R. Griffin Randolph, the holder of the Epworth chair in humanities at Harvard" whose wife (Abby's mother) runs off (at age 55) with Henrietta Potter, wife of Bickford Potter the Harvard economist. Abby can be a real wimp sometimes. She does eventually develop a backbone, and you are cheering her on all the way. It is set in Cambridge and filled with literary trivia, antique roadshows and flea markets, and the Brownings' chamber pot!
PS: Like M is for Malice and Digging to America, this book also has legal intrigues involving simultaneous deaths, inheritance disputes, and a T&E lawyer. I don't know how I managed to pick out three books all having to do with my law practice! It actually contains the phrase "I . . . listened to Professor Thayer expound on the disclaimer provision of the gift tax law." Now if that doesn't make you want to run out and buy the book, I don't know what will!
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