Corrigan

A tour-de-force of style and substance -- one of the funniest, best-written novels I've read in a long time.

Caroline Blackwood's "Corrigan" is sly, witty and surprisingly compassionate. Loved it. The perfect read for anytime you can spend some quality time with a novel. Finest kind indeed.

A bacchanal and major home renovations ensue when a bewheelchaired stranger crunches up the gravel driveway of a wealthy widow. Corrigan, while fundraising for the handicapped in the English countryside, rolls into the heart and home of lonely Mrs. Blunt, much to the chagrin of her streetwise housekeeper and the daughter who stands to inherit her wealth.Brilliantly concise and characterized by a dry and confident wit, Corrigan is charming, hilarious, and rage-inducing all at once. Note of interest: Blackwood picked up writing as a hobby when she was in her forties and married to poet Robert Lowell.