Million-copy NYT bestseller!

"Fiction at its best!" —New Woman magazine

“Bestsellers like Decades*,** Husbands And Lovers and Love And Money have established Ruth Harris as one of the frankest, most stylish, and most compelling voices in contemporary fiction." —Chicago Sun-Times*

Meet three modern women—and the men in their lives. The right men. The wrong men. The maybe men.

Jane Gresch: Her delicious revenge on her lying, cheating, thieving ex makes her rich and famous, but then what?

Lincky Desmond: Smart, beautiful and hard working, she marries Mr. Right—but risks it all for Mr. Oh-so-wrong.

Elly McGrath: When her husband dumps her for a younger woman, she doesn’t get mad. She gets even.

Owen Casals: He is handsome, horny, and magnetic. Everyone knows it—and so does he.

Spirited, resilient adventurers in a new universe of untried freedoms and untested ideals, they open doors into an exhilarating—and challenging—future.

"Excellent! Thoroughly delightful!" —Los Angeles Times

"Ruth Harris' rapier wit spices up a coming-of-age-in-the-sexist-'60s story. Funny, sad, vivid, and more than raunchy enough to satisfy the most ribald appetites. Harris seeks to enliven and entertain, and she does it in spades." —Cleveland Plain-Dealer

"A superb 'rags to riches' story! Harris creates characters that are alive and familiar. These three women, Lincky, Jane and Elly, are like old friends, women we've all known. Their experiences, hopes and fears are universal and, yet, like most modern women they, too, wonder if they will find the right man and or how to get rid of the wrong one. Each in their own way finds success at the top and a successful relationship. You'll love Modern Women." —West Coast Review of Books

"Sharply and stylishly written. Without sermonizing, Harris writes with intellect, insight and humor about the good, bad and ugly aspects of being a woman during the '60s and '70s." —Chicago Sun-Times

"Fiction at its best. Savvily mixes rosy fantasy with truth about women's lives. MODERN WOMEN follows the ripening of three women from the rule-busting sixties to the money-mad eighties. Open this novel and prepare to be happy." —New Woman magazine

"Excellent! A thoroughly delightful tale of what it was like to be young, ambitious and in love during an exciting period of history." --Los Angeles Times