J. Courtney Sullivan

"An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions (named one of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Critics' Pick). Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in...

There are all sorts of marriages. Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years, since he slipped off her first wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine has seen the highs of seduction and the spitefulness that descends when it's over. James knows his wife's family thinks she could have done better; while Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has vowed never to have a wedding. As these lives and marriages unfold, we meet Frances...

"A sweeping, unforgettable novel fromThe New York Timesbest-selling author ofMaine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart. Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by...