I adore Alison Lurie. She takes what could be the dryest subjects--like
Truth and Consequences, about
an academic administrator and her injured but philandering professor husband--and makes them fascinating with her strong characters and her excellent insights into relationships and character.
Foreign Affairs is about a fifty-four year old English professor traveling to London to study children's playground rhymes. Lurie is a master of social comedy, and her books have a very Austen feel. Vinnie Miner is such a complex and fascinating character, and I adore all of her insights into life as a older, unmarried woman. See also
Women and Ghosts, a collection of vivid, spooky tales, each featuring a woman and a ghost. And
Don’t Tell the Grown-ups: The Subversive Nature of Children’s Literature-you’ll never look at Peter Pan or Kate Greenaway the same way again.
