After the sudden death of her husband, 70-year-old Henrietta Olyphant is broke and unmoored. Her daughter Oona is mid-divorce. Meanwhile, Oona's teenager Lydia, away at boarding school, faces accusations involving a viral nude photo. In the wake of the upheaval, these tough, independent women find themselves under one roof. Together the three generations sift through the mess, and emerge renewed.
When her cherished anonymity is threatened by the reissue of a best-seller from her early career, Henrietta Olyphant navigates scandals in the lives of her daughter and granddaughter over the course of a fateful few days.
When her cherished anonymity is threatened by the reissue of a best-seller from her early career, writer Henrietta navigates scandals in the lives of her daughters over the course of a fateful few days marked by French food, loss and an old rooster. By the author of Wise Men. 35,000 first printing.
A keenly observed multi-generational novel about sex, marriage, shame, money, divorce, guilt, bad therapists, French food, death, and one old rooster, by the acclaimed author ofWise Men.
Henrietta Olyphant has lost her husband, her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity:The Inseparables, the scandalous and critically despised best-seller that Henrietta wrote decades earlier, is set to be reissued. At the same time, her daughter Oona is in the middle of a divorce, and has begun an affair with her therapist. And Oona's teenaged daughter Lydia faces scrutiny and shame when a nude photo unintentionally circulates around her boarding school. In the wake of these upheavals, the women come together unexpectedly to sift through the mess. Told over the course of a few days, this incisive and moving novel examines what happens when our most careful ideas about ourselves unravel and we must invent ourselves--and our family--anew.
