Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge

Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

By: Helen Ellis

Narrated by: Helen Ellis

Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New York Times bestselling author paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss.

"Ellis is one of our greatest living humorists, in the same league as Sedaris and Irby...A fascinating portrait of middle-aged love.” —Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward

Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis’s New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade that a Peeping Tom left a sticky note asking for the color. It is in the Coral Lounge where all the parties happen: A game called “What’s in the box?” makes its uproarious debut, the Puzzle Posse pounces on a 500-piece jigsaw of a beheaded priest, and guests don blindfolds for a raucous bridal shower.

When the pandemic shuts down the city, the Coral Lounge becomes a place of refuge, where Helen and her husband binge-watch Joan Collins’s Dynasty, dote on two spoiled cats, and where Helen discovers that even twenty years into marriage, her husband still makes her heart pitter patter.

One of her best! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Not my first Helen Ellis rodeo, have read many of her essays and short stories, but this one will stand out as a personal favorite. Warm, personal, funny, and just a general delight. The cats, the husband, the box, the stickers, the pandemic viagra, and The Coral Lounge....loved all of it. Can I place all her future books on automatic pre-order? Is that a thing?

PS She does her own narration, which, much like David Sedaris, is pretty much perfect.

Loved noticing my particularities are not in my head.

Daily self talking points come to life in this well read account of things we all think.

Hysterical

I could identify with these stories, even when I’m 20 years older. I’ll recommend this audible.

Helen Ellis does it again

I love this author and am always so excited to see what she comes up with next. Thankful for writers like her, highly recommend this book and all of her others.

Loved it!

Great narration and made me laugh out loud.!!! Highly recommend this book. Word word word word