Cathleen Schine is the author of the internationally best-selling novels
The Love Letter, which was made into a movie starring Kate Capshaw, and
Rameau’s Niece, which was also made into a movie
(
The Misadventures of Margaret), starring Parker Posey. Schine’s other novels are
Alice in Bed,
To the Bird House,
The Evolution of Jane,
She is Me,
The New Yorkers,
The Three Weissmanns of Westport, and
Fin & Lady.
Her new novel is
They May Not Mean To, But They Do.
One of Schine's six favorite inspiring books on independence, as shared at
The Week magazine:
The Old Filth Trilogy by Jane Gardam
Really, any novel or story by Gardam is worth reading repeatedly. Her characters are unpredictable and irresistible. In this trilogy of novels, they are also old. Old age is a kind of forced independence, as all the props of one's former life fall away, and Gardam's characters meet their new lot with sanguine curiosity. The trilogy is a masterpiece.
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Coffee with a Canine: Cathleen Schine & Hector.
--Marshal Zeringue
(The Misadventures of Margaret), starring Parker Posey. Schine’s other novels are Alice in Bed, To the Bird House, The Evolution of Jane, She is Me, The New Yorkers, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, and Fin & Lady.