Description:
From an award-winning, national bestselling author comes a "ferociously funny" novel (The Los Angeles Times) about an advice columnist in Vermont whose life is about to be turned upside down.
Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonelyhearts of a chic counter-cultural magazine, finds her unflappable Vermont life completely upended by her teenaged soap-opera-star niece, Nicole, and her hangers-on.
Review Quotes: "Her most comic novel thus far ... raises serious questions about the nature of love."--The New York Times Book Review
"A master chronicler of our life and times."--Newsday "A very funny book. . . . If Jane Austen had been crossed with Oscar Wilde and re-crossed with the early Evelyn Waugh, and the result plonked down among the semi-beautiful people of the late 20th-century media-fringe America . . . the outcome might have been something like this."--Margaret Atwood "Ferociously funny."--The Los Angeles Times "Beattie's new novel, her third, is a gratifying surprise. Love Always will be welcomed by the large and loyal Beattie readership, but there is much that recommends it to the previously unconverted."--Harper's Bazaar "Beattie's most comic--indeed her first satiric--work to date. . . . Much of the book's authenticity derives from the accretion of felt detail--a Beattie trademark. She captures 1984 Vermont with right-on references to Cyndi Lauper, Horchow catalogues, and 'pre-Cabbage Patch' Coleco."--The Christian Science Monitor