New York Times bestselling author Helen Ellis paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss.
When the pandemic shuts down the city, the Coral Lounge becomes a place of refuge, where Helen and her husband binge-watch Joan Collins\'s Dynasty , dote on two spoiled cats, and where Helen discovers that even twenty years into marriage, her husband still makes her heart pitter patter..
It is in the Coral Lounge where all the parties happen: A game called What\'s in the box? makes its uproarious debut, the Puzzle Posse pounces on a 500-piece jigsaw of a beheaded priest, and guests don blindfolds for a raucous bridal shower. --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis\'s New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade that a Peeping Tom left a sticky note asking for the color.
Ellis is one of our greatest living humorists, in the same league as Sedaris and Irby...
A fascinating portrait of middle-aged love.
New York Times bestselling author Helen Ellis paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss
