A New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and 2012 L.A. Times First Novel PrizeA New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize and 2012 L.A. Times First Novel PrizeThe Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to an impeccably appropriate young man. The weekend is full of lobster and champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discontent and simmering lust seep through the cracks in the revelry.Winn Van Meter, father-of-the-bride, has spent his life following the rules of the east coast upper crust, but now, just shy of his sixtieth birthday, he must finally confront his failings, his desires, and his own humanity.‘Joyously good’ DAILY MAIL‘A ferociously clever comedy of manners’ GUARDIAN‘Distinctive and dazzling … The world has found a remarkable, humane new voice to explain us to ourselves’ Allison Pearson‘A wise, sophisticated and funny novel about family, fidelity, class and crisis’ MARIE CLAIREBooks of 2012 – TELEGRAPHBooks of 2012 – SUNDAY EXPRESSMaggie Shipstead graduated from Harvard in 2005 and earned an M.F.A at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Currently, she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Seating Arrangements is her first novel.facebook.com/maggieshipsteadauthor* A dazzling debut novel* Rave response in-house*Compare to Jeffrey Eugenides, Michael Chabon, F Scott Fitzgerald* To be published by Knopf in the USA* Impeccable authorial credentials: Harvard, Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Stegner Fellow at Stanford* A serious contender for the Orange Prize* Major marketing campaign planned* Big advance proof mailing to booksellers, other authors and publishers, agents, literary editors, women’s magazines, TV and radioCompetition: Great Circle;Hamnet;Small Pleasures;Unsettled Ground;Ariadne;The Last Thing He Told Me;The Goldfinch;Where the Crawdads Sing;Astonish Me;The House Guest. Maggie O’Farrell;Clare Chambers;Claire Fuller;Laura Dave;Jennifer Saint;Jonathan Franzen;Donna Tartt;Delia Owen;Curtis Sittenfeld; William Boyd
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