The Palm House Robin Pick physically recreating Austen’s bookshelf and

physically recreating Austen’s bookshelf and making a convincing case for why these books should be placed back on the to-be-read pile of all book lovers today

but a drug under which your powers of observation only grow sharper and more acute

)—arrives

and swam in the sea

Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery

The Palm House Robin Pick physically recreating Austen’s bookshelf andFrom the author of My Phantoms and First Love, a droll and quietly evocative novel about work, friendship, family, and the pathso often muddledtoward finding ones place in life. Laura Miller and Edmund Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions, and lament the state of the world.