Loviah French owns a boutique dress shop in Manhattan. She has two best friends: Dinah - a columnist covering New York's wealthiest - and Avis - a prominent figure in the art world. Despite the deep affection they both feel for Loviah, Dinah and Avis have been allergic to one another since an incident decades earlier that has been remembered and resented. But when a marriage means that Dinah and Avis must set aside their differences, Loviah must manage her two friends' secrets as wisely as she can. Which is not wisely enough, as things turn out - a fact that will have a shattering effect on all their lives.
Beth Gutcheon is the critically acclaimed author of eight previous novels, including the US bestsellers Still Missing, More Than You Know and Leeway Cottage. She lives in New York City.
Title: Gossip
Author: Gutcheon, Beth
ISBN: 9780857899842
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Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication Date: 2014-06-05
Number of Pages: 288
Weight: 0.2401 kg
Gutcheon writes poignantly, but with a sharp comic edge, about female friendship, the bleakness of fate and the disappointments of love; and her grasp of the profound connection between clothes and emotion recalls Nancy Mitford at her most seriously frivolous. -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph *
A graceful and elegant novel that explores the unintended damage that simmering hostility and sharing confidences can bring, Gossip builds to a stunning and devastating finish. * New York Times *
Enthralling, triumphant and true * Boston Globe *