A Big Storm Knocked it Over
Published on 6. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-3996-1442-9 (ISBN)
Description
'A love story for anyone who tends to overthink things' Maile Meloy
In her late thirties, book designer Jane Louise Parker has started to worry she will never find someone to marry. Until she meets Teddy, whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune.
After their wedding, Jane Louise returns to work at a small publishing house, but struggles to think of herself as older, wiser, more grown-up.
Soon though she, along with her best friend Edie, will find out whether motherhood might just be the ultimate dividing line between youth and something else.
Laurie Colwin's final novel joyfully explores friendship, love, marriage, motherhood and families created in their own particular way.
A W&N Essential
In her late thirties, book designer Jane Louise Parker has started to worry she will never find someone to marry. Until she meets Teddy, whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune.
After their wedding, Jane Louise returns to work at a small publishing house, but struggles to think of herself as older, wiser, more grown-up.
Soon though she, along with her best friend Edie, will find out whether motherhood might just be the ultimate dividing line between youth and something else.
Laurie Colwin's final novel joyfully explores friendship, love, marriage, motherhood and families created in their own particular way.
A W&N Essential
Reviews / Votes
An infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you can -- Emma Straub A love story for anyone who tends to overthink things -- Maile Meloy This novel makes the idea of happy endings for decent people seem entirely plausible - no small feat for a writer these days and no small pleasure for a reader * New York Times * Laurie Colwin is the poet of married love -- Edmund White A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction and affection * New Yorker *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3996-1442-9 (9781399614429)
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Laurie Colwin
A Big Storm Knocked it Over
E-Book
03/2021
Weidenfeld and Nicholson
€3.99
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Person
Laurie Colwin is the author of five novels - HAPPY ALL THE TIME, FAMILY HAPPINESS, GOODBYE WITHOUT LEAVING, A BIG STORM KNOCKED IT OVER and SHINE ON, BRIGHT AND DANGEROUS OBJECT - three collections of short stories - PASSION AND AFFECT, THE LONE PILGRIM and ANOTHER MARVELLOUS THING - and two collections of essays, HOME COOKING and MORE HOME COOKING. Laurie Colwin died in 1992.