"Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters... A highly engrossing novel." — San Francisco Chronicle

From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin), comes a searing, deeply humane novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family's struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the obscene cost of medical care in modern

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Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they're all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together (courtesy of Linda's philandering husband's Visa Platinum). But at the LaGuardia airport washroom, Bette accidentally switches bags with a young mother who's actually smuggling diamonds for the mob, and things start going terribly wrong. When they kill an aggressive cab driver...

Raised in an exclusive boarding school among Fifth Avenue's finest, Meg Davenport has all she's ever needed...but none of the things she's wanted most, like family, or dreams of a future that includes anything other than finding a suitable match. So when her distant father dies, she seizes the chance to throw etiquette aside and do as she pleases. Especially when she learns that John Davenport wasn't the wealthy businessman she thought, but one

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Collects stories set in India, England, and New York City, revealing what unites people across oceans, cultures, and lifetimes.

Bestselling author William Peter Blatty, author of "The Exorcist", warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving, nostalgic tale of memory, mystery and miracles. New York, 1941, Joe is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's school when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl who seems to know him better than he knows himself. Jane is like nobody he has ever met. She comes and goes at will, nobody else seems...