MP3 CD Format "Laurie Colwin's beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over , is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness--a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world." -- Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It In her fifth and final novel, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship, motherhood and careers, as experienced by a cast of delightfully idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knocked It Over stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction's most original and beloved voices. In her late thirties, Jane Louise Parker has just married a man whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune. After the wedding, she returns to work at a small and tony publishing house whose finances are in disarray. Alongside her best friend, Edie, Jane Louise patiently waits to become pregnant, wondering if a baby will provide a sense of rootedness that still seems to elude her. When that longed-for child arrives, it transforms the Parkers' lives in a way that is as unexpected as it is rapturous. "Laurie Colwin's beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over , is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness--a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world." -- " Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It" "From the first sentence of A Big Storm Knocked It Over , beguiling words and an engaging ambience combine to seduce us." -- "Washington Post Book World" "The novel makes the idea of happy endings for decent people seem entirely plausible, almost inevitable--no small feat for a writer these days and no small pleasure for a reader." -- "New York Times" Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) wrote novels, three short-story collections, and two essay collections. Her five novels are Happy All the Time; Family Happiness; Goodbye without Leaving; Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object; and A Big Storm Knocked It Over.