Fin Lady, Cathleen Schine
Fin Lady, Cathleen Schine
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Fin & Lady
A Novel

Author: Cathleen Schine

Narrator: Anne Twomey

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/09/2013

Synopsis

From bestselling author Cathleen Schine comes Fin & Lady, a wise, clever story of New York in the '60s.

It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s. He soon learns that Lady-giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free-is as much his responsibility as he is hers.

So begins Fin & Lady, the lively, spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine, the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the '60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War-Lady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself.

From a writer The New York Times has praised as "sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting," Fin & Lady is a comic, romantic love story: the story of a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional family in increasingly unconventional times.

About Cathleen Schine

Cathleen Schine is the author of The Grammarians, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, and The Love Letter, among other novels. She has contributed to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

About Anne Twomey

Anne Twomey is an accomplished actress of both stage and screen.  Her Broadway credits include Orpheus Descending, with Vanessa Redgrave, To Grandmother's House We Go, and Nuts, for which she received a Tony nomination and a Theatre World award.  Her many television appearances include guest roles on Seinfeld, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Cosby Show, Spin City, and the Christopher Reeves' movie-of-the-week Rear Window.  She has also appeared in the films Picture Perfect and Orpheus Descending. Anne appears frequently on New York-based episodic TV such as Third Watch and Law & Order.  Anne's many audiobook credits include works by such authors as Dean Koontz, Joyce Carol Oates, Tracy Chevalier, and Barbara Ehrenreich.  She is married to actor John Bedford Lloyd, also an audiobook narrator.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 15, 2023

3.5 stars: I am a huge fan of Cathleen Schine. After reading this novel, my admiration continues. Schine’s talent for writing witty dialogue is exceptional. It’s a story of Fin, who is orphaned at age 11 in 1964. Fin’s half sister, Lady, assumes his care. She whisks him from a dairy farm in Connecti......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on August 23, 2021

In the early 1960s, beautiful twenty-four-year-old Lady Hadley swoops in to take over the care of her half-brother Fin Hadley when he's orphaned at eleven. Lady is a free spirit - able to travel, maintain a luxurious home, and indulge in favorite political causes - due to a generous trust fund. Lady......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on September 10, 2013

This book was too meandering to capture and hold my attention. I read pages without remembering what specifically was going on, and didn't bother to go back and figure it out. Part of the problem was the character of Lady, who's unstable and detached and in charge of raising her young brother, which......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on December 14, 2013

This is, plain and simple, a fairy tale for adults. It has all the right ingredients: Orphans both literal and figurative, innocence in many forms (and only a slight, very palatable loss thereof), beauty, youth, several quests in the name of love (including three-count-em-three suitors), Greenwich V......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on May 11, 2013

This felt very slight as I was reading it but it has grown in weight in the week since I finished. The novel is about a young boy Fin who is raised by his older half-sister Lady. She is charismatic, unpredictable and flighty and there is a bit of a question regarding who is really raising who. The n......more

Quotes

“In this bildungsroman set against the swinging '60s, a young boy named Fin is orphaned and must move from his quiet Connecticut dairy farm to live with his much older half sister, Lady, in Greenwich Village, where things will never be the same for him.” —The Los Angeles Times

“Cathleen Schine's witty, wry prose is well served by actress Anne Twomey, who deftly brings to life Ms. Schine's warmly affecting story of two souls searching for an identity in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1960s.” —New York Journal of Books

“Narrator Twomey, who has a pleasing voice, deftly manages several European accents and reads at a quick pace that keeps the action moving along.” —The Plain Dealer

“Anne Twomey narrates this unusual story of creating a family with soft tones and a hint of humor…Twomey's performance captures the story's complex emotions with a lilting voice and subtle inflections.” —AudioFile Magazine

“Anne Twomey brings a thoughtful competence to the narration.” —Library Journal

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