Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband's mistress, she and her two middle-aged daughters, Miranda and Annie, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. In Schine's playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, the impulsive sister is Miranda, a literary agent entangled in a series of scandals, and the more pragmatic sister is Annie, a library director, who feels compelled to move in and watch over her capricious mother and sister. Schine's witty, wonderful novel The Three Weissmanns of Westport "is simply full of pleasure: the pleasure of reading, the pleasure of Austen, and the pleasure that the characters so rightly and humorously pursue….An absolute triumph" (The Cleveland Plain Dealer).

 

人生七十五才開始，真的不會太老？

七十八歲的喬瑟夫決定與七十五歲的妻子貝蒂離異，只僅僅拋下一句：「我們之間存在著無法相容的差異！」但事實上，他愛上了年紀小他一半的女人。貝蒂結束了這段五十年的婚姻，打算搬到美國西城的海邊小屋療情傷。貝蒂的女兒米蘭達和安妮，除了自身遇到了困境，也擔心任性的母親做出瘋狂的事而一起前往，於是母女三人在殘舊的海邊別墅展開新的生活。當母女三人習慣西城的生活後，卻雙雙墜入愛河，她們又該如何在現實生活和浪漫愛情之中找到平衡點？