Elizabeth B Benedict

Slow Dancing

Safe Conduct

Slow Dancing

The Beginner's Book of Dreams

The Beginner's Book of Dreams

Slow Dancing

Almost

Almost

The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels (Best American)

Best Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Six Novels includes works by some of the finest novelists of today.Almost by Elizabeth Benedictchronicles the attempt of writer Sophy Chase to come to terms with the death of her almost ex-husband -- who may have committed suicide on the New England resort island w...

The Practice of Deceit: A Novel

In this razor-sharp novel of marriage and divorce gone awry, Elizabeth Benedict navigates the turbulent waters of love, power, and vengeance with biting wit and penetrating insight. When the Manhattan psychotherapist Eric Lavender meets the sexy, stylish lawyer Colleen O'Brien Golden, his bachelor l...

Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession

Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations abou...

In the Kennedy Kitchen: Recipes and Recollections of a Great American Family

Book by Neil Connolly, Elizabeth Benedict

Beginner's Book of Dreams, The

Almost: A Novel

ALMOST, Elizabeth Benedict's fourth novel, is "her most spirited to date" (New York Times Book Review). Forty-something narrator Sophy Chase has just begun a lighthearted, romantically adventurous life in New York City when she learns that her almost ex-husband has been found dead on the New England...

Slow Dancing: A Novel

Finalist for the National Book Award: A sassy, cynical professional woman’s notions of love—and its apparent impossibility—are thrown into question by a man who challenges everything she thought she knewThough a talented young immigration lawyer, Lexi Steiner is in trouble. The legal organization wh...

What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most

In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original...