10. Isabel’s bed de Elinor Lipman

When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug’s bed is covered in sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. The unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted Harriet has fled Manhattan for a room atop a Cape Cod dune. There, in Isabel’s loudly elegant retreat, she’ll ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blonde’s scandalous tabloid past. Unusually talend in the man department (“I give lessons”), Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled story Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a soap-opera extravanganza, an experience to be swallowed whole – and the attitude is catching…