The Ladies’ Man is the story of three sisters and Harvey Nash who failed to show up at his engagement party to Adele, the oldest sister. He skedadled to California and reinvented himself as Nash Harvey, a jingle composer and confirmed bachelor.
After 30 years he returns to Boston and his appearance changes the sisters lives once again. Adele wants nothing to do with him and finds herself flirting with her boss on live television (she’s a fund raiser). Lois, the middle sister, revives her long cherished notion that Harvey abandoned Adele rather than show the family his preference for her. (Lois is the only sister who has married and divorced, after finding out her husband was a cross dresser.) Kathleen, the youngest, feels free to flirt with her doorman, where she runs an upscale Victoria’s Secret.
Through all of this, Nash cannot control his platinum tongue and roving eye, bedding, or trying to, various ladies he encounters.
This book would make a great screwball comedy.
P.S. I wrote Ms. Lipman a fan post card after I read she lived in “The Osborne” which was in an article in the NYTimes as being one of the buildings evacuated because of the dangling crane. The article mentioned several famous people who lived there and she was one.