Overview
The beloved New York Times bestseller from acclaimed author Eleanor Brown about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much.Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father--a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse--named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot to live up to. The sisters each have a hard time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially with one another. What can the shy homebody eldest sister, the fast-living middle child, and the bohemian youngest sibling have in common? Only that none has found life to be what was expected; and now, faced with their parents' frailty and their own personal disappointments, not even a book can solve what ails them...
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- ISBN-13: 9780425244142
- ISBN-10: 0425244148
- Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Publish Date: February 2012
- Dimensions: 8.21 x 5.56 x 1.01 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 400
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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