Gossip

<p>A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent brave and witty...human and real.<br />--Susan Isaacs <em>New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>The critically acclaimed author of <em>Good-bye and Amen</em> <em>Leeway Cottage</em> and <em>More Than You Know</em> Beth Gutcheon returns with <em>Gossip</em> 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 <em>Gossip</em> 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 <em>Gossip</em>.<br /></p>