Gossip

“A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent brave and witty...human and real.”—Susan Isaacs New York Times Book ReviewThe critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen Leeway Cottage and More Than You Know Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things about others the consequences of rumor and the unexpected price of friendship. A story set among the rich famous and well-dressed of Manhattan’s Upper East Side Gossip is a bravura display of this exceptional author’s breathtaking talents addressing important themes of motherhood friendship and fidelity. Every reader who admires the strong character-driven women’s fiction of Sue Miller Alice Hoffman Elizabeth Berg and Kaye Gibbons should lend an ear to Beth Gutcheon’s Gossip.