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IN `BROWNING,' POSSESSION IS NINE-10THS OF THE DRAW

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20060312
Author:Roberta Silman

This is a novel as delicious as its title, and a wonderful antidote if you're slightly depressed, searching for something to sink into on a snowy day or, like its heroine, have been in sweats since Friday night and it is now Sunday afternoon. Hard to put down once you have begun, "How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life," by Mameve Medwed, is narrated by Abby Randolph, who is not known for being a good "finisher," who quit Harvard just short of graduation and now owns a booth called "Objects of Desire" at an antique emporium in Cambridge. When the novel begins, she is mourning her ...

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