num_pages: 228
description: This modern-day Sense and Sensibility is a witty story about two Liza, a would-be poet who spends miserable days as a legal secretary; and Bette a graduate student writing her dissertation on Toast in the English Novel. Bette has taken to eating only what the characters she is writing about would boiled eggs on toast, minemeat, nice cups of tea...Liza's a bit concerned. She's also worried about the status of her relationship with her actor boyfriend, Gregor. They're not living together, and that's a problem.Then there's the issue of Liza's career, or lack thereof. Can dog-walking be considered a vocation? Liza's beginning to think so. Mercifully, Bette is merely a local phone call away.Throughout this hilarious novel, the sisters deal with unemployment, infidelity, interfering parents, Hollywood, lemmings, a pregnancy, and a wedding. The Perfect Elizabeth is as indulgent and cathartic as a pint of Haagen-Dazs.
language: English
title: The Perfect Elizabeth: A Tale of Two Sisters
titlecomplete: The Perfect Elizabeth: A Tale of Two Sisters
genres: Relationships, Adult, Chick Lit, Realistic Fiction, Novels, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Womens Fiction
ratings_count: 492
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin