Isabel's Bed

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 Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based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 (I give lessons), 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: Elinor Lipman
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 05/01/1998
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.20h x 4.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780671015640

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.