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How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life
Mameve Medwed
William Morrow
March 2006
Featuring: Abby Randolph
288 pages ISBN: 0060831197 Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a
long-ago suitor all have in common? In this delicious
laugh-out-loud new novel of love and loss, rivalry and
reconciliation, treasure and trash, by acclaimed author
Mameve Medwed (Mail, The End of an Error), we see what
happens when past and present collide. . . .
Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have written about the
length and breadth of love, but Abby Randolph has given up
on all that, preferring to spend her time between her
cluttered "needs work" apartment and the overcrowded
antiques mart -- the optimistically named Objects of Desire.
Yet Abby can't help but wonder what happened to her earlier
passionate self who rejected the path set out for her,
dropping out of Harvard and falling headfirst into an
ill-fated love affair. . . .
Then the Antiques Roadshow comes to town, and Abby
turns up at the crack of dawn, artifact in hand, standing
alongside thousands of Boston's hopefuls. But there, among
the carousel horses, pipe sets, potbellied stoves, and
bedraggled stuffed animals, it is Abby's rather ordinary --
and squalid -- piece of porcelain that gets the star treatment.
Abby is barely able to enjoy her good news, for the moment
the show airs, life comes back at her at full force.
Everything changes: friendship, finances, family, love
affairs, career, her view of others, and the way she sees
herself.
With this, her fourth novel, Medwed once again returns to
Cambridge and, in her "sardonic, funny voice" (Chicago
Tribune), "homes in on the rarified self-important
atmosphere of our Ivy League institutions -- and the
reflected snobbishness of the people who serve them" (New
York Times Book Review).
This novel is a gift to anyone who goes to a flea market or
watches Antiques Roadshow, anyone who has ever defied
expectations, or, especially, anyone who has never been able
to extinguish an old flame.
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