Books by Laura Zigman

Ellen Franck and Amy Jacobs are smart, attractive, urban women, with big jobs in the fashion business. They have witnessed their contemporaries following the traditional route of marriage, children, exile to suburbia, and a general loveless, sexless existence. But now Ellen and Amy discover that they both hear the same, terrible noise.

'If someone had asked me a year ago why I thought it was that men leave women and never come back. I would have said this: New Cow New Cow is short for New Cow Theory, which is for Old Cow-New Cow Theory, which, of course, is short for the sad sorry truth that men leave women and never come back because all they really want is a new Cow.

On a chance encounter on the Delta shuttle between NY and Washington, Elise meets Donald, six foot six, with dark wavy hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a big easy smile, and no wife, no kids. Drop by drop, Adrienne is sending her into a frenzied state of insecurity - particularly as her April wedding to Donald approaches-