Afternoon Readers
Tuesday, April 14, 1 p.m.
The Good House
by Ann Leary
Hildy Good is a townie. A lifelong resident of a small community on
the rocky coast of Boston's North Shore, she knows pretty much
everything about everyone. And she's good at lots of things, too. A
successful real-estate broker, mother, and grandmother, her days are
full. But her nights have become lonely ever since her daughters,
convinced their mother was drinking too much, sent her off to rehab.
Now she's in recovery--more or less.
Alone and feeling unjustly
persecuted, Hildy finds a friend in Rebecca McAllister, one of the
town's wealthy newcomers. Rebecca is grateful for the friendship and
Hildy feels like a person of the world again, as she and Rebecca escape
their worries with some harmless gossip and a bottle of wine by the
fire--just one of their secrets.
But Rebecca is herself the subject
of town gossip. When Frank Getchell, an old friend who shares a
complicated history with Hildy, tries to warn her away from Rebecca,
Hildy attempts to protect her friend from a potential scandal. Soon,
however, Hildy is busy trying to protect her own reputation. When a
cluster of secrets becomes dangerously entwined, the reckless behavior
of one person threatens to expose the other, and this darkly comic novel
takes a chilling turn.
The Good House, by Ann Leary, is
funny, poignant, and terrifying. A classic New England tale that lays
bare the secrets of one little town, this spirited novel will stay with
you long after the story has ended.-- from the
publisher
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