<DIV><DIV><P><B>A <I>New York Times</I> Best Seller<BR>A<I> New York Times Book Review</I> Editors' Choice</B></P></DIV><P>Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband's mistress, she and her two middle-aged daughters, Miranda and Annie, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. In Schine's playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen's <I>Sense and Sensibility</I>, the impulsive sister is Miranda, a literary agent entangled in a series of scandals, and the more pragmatic sister is Annie, a library director, who feels compelled to move in and watch over her capricious mother and sister. Schine's witty, wonderful novel<I> “</I>is simply full of <I>pleasure</I>: the pleasure of reading, the pleasure of Austen, and the pleasure that the characters so rightly and humorously pursue….An absolute triumph” (<I>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</I>). </P></DIV>