Maggie Shipstead graduated from Harvard in 2005 and earned an M.F.A at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Currently, she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Seating Arrangements is her first novel.facebook.com/maggieshipsteadauthor

‘Joyously good’ Daily Mail‘A ferociously clever comedy of manners’ Guardian‘Shipstead’s sophisticated and summery debut more than lives up to the hype’ Independent‘Distinctive and dazzling … The world has found a remarkable, humane new voice to explain us to ourselves’ Allison Pearson, Telegraph‘A wise, sophisticated and funny novel about family, fidelity, class and crisis’ Marie Claire

Maggie Shipstead graduated from Harvard in 2005 and earned an M.F.A at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Currently, she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Seating Arrangements is her first novel.facebook.com/maggieshipsteadauthor

‘Joyously good’ Daily Mail‘A ferociously clever comedy of manners’ Guardian‘Shipstead’s sophisticated and summery debut more than lives up to the hype’ Independent‘Distinctive and dazzling … The world has found a remarkable, humane new voice to explain us to ourselves’ Allison Pearson, Telegraph‘A wise, sophisticated and funny novel about family, fidelity, class and crisis’ Marie Claire

Maggie Shipstead graduated from Harvard in 2005 and earned an M.F.A at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Currently, she is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Seating Arrangements is her first novel.facebook.com/maggieshipsteadauthor

‘Joyously good’ Daily Mail‘A ferociously clever comedy of manners’ Guardian‘Shipstead’s sophisticated and summery debut more than lives up to the hype’ Independent‘Distinctive and dazzling … The world has found a remarkable, humane new voice to explain us to ourselves’ Allison Pearson, Telegraph‘A wise, sophisticated and funny novel about family, fidelity, class and crisis’ Marie Claire