Isabel was able to remember the precise moment she tried killing her husband. Strangely enough, she couldn't recollect why. A page-turning tale of tangled love, which makes for perfect summer reading. Thus begins the powerful story of Isabel, who, at the age of 28, has been granted early success as the head of a publishing house... a woman of taste and discernment, endowed with enviable wit and a razor-sharp mind. Yet, as the novel opens, we know...

From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his novel, Her Infinite Variety. Louis Auchincloss has been called "our most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" (Washington Post Book World). Now he brings us the rollicking tale of an unforgettable woman of mid-twentieth century America:...

After spending the last four years at home raising her daughter, Sophie Greenwood lands her dream job at Jackdaw Books, but some problems start on the very first day and it seems as if someone is sabotoging both her work her life at home.