Description: Liza is a would-be poet, who spends miserable days as a legal secretary, while her sister Bette is teaching at a prestigious university, and writing her dissertation on Toast in the English Novel. Bette has even taken to eating only that which the characters she is writing about would eat: nice cups of tea, boiled egg on toast, mincemeat....Liza is a bit concerned. She is also concerned about the status of her relationship with her actor boyfriend Gregor. They are not living together, and that is the problem. And then there is the issue of Liza's career, or the lack thereof. Can dog-walking be considered a career? Liza is beginning to think so. Mercifully, Bette is merely a local phone call away. By the end of this charming novel, the sisters have dealt with unemployment, infidelity, interfering parents, Hollywood, lemmings, a pregnancy and a wedding. Like Laura Zigman's Animal Husbandry, The Perfect Elizabeth is sassy and best read round a pint of ice cream.

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