Alison Lurie

Virginia Miner, a 50-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children's folk rhymes....

In the midst of the Great Depression, two families spend a holiday weekend together--but while their daughters cement their friendship, their parents tear their marriages apart....

When a wife reaches her breaking point, and her husband begins an ill-advised affair, civil war breaks out within their family....

Tom McCann, a professor of sociology, and his young assistant, Roger, infiltrate a religious cult group based in New York State, deciding it will make excellent study material....

A young couple from New England's Ivy League plunges into a culture clash during a year in Los Angeles....

Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair....