Recipe for a Happy Life: A Novel

Hannah Goodman doesn't grow up like most kids on the Upper East Side, thanks to her award-winning photojournalist mother Gray who has little time for child-rearing.

But Hannah finds solace in her grandmother - a glamorous widow six times over with a sprawling Hampton's estate.

Despite Gray's determination that her daughter resist the siren song of the trust fund set, Hannah becomes a successful lawyer in New York City and dates a handsome musician.

But when her carefully constructed life falls apart, she seeks solace at her grandmother's estate and discovers that where happiness is concerned, you don't have to stick to the recipe.

From Brenda Janowitz, the author of Jack with a Twist and Scot on the Rocks, comes a charming, clever, and romantic novel about three generations of women with a culture all their own.