“Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is ‘god-sibling’? It’s the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It’s talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect.”
Loviah “Lovie” French owns a small, high-end dress shop on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Renowned for her taste and discretion, Lovie is the one to whom certain women turn when they need “just the thing” for major life events—baptisms and balls, weddings and funerals—or when they just want to dish in the dressing room. Among the people who depend on Lovie’s confidence are her two best friends since boarding school: Dinah Wainwright and Avis Metcalf.
Outspoken and brimming with confidence, Dinah made a name for herself as a columnist covering the doings of New York’s wealthiest and most fabulous. Shy, proper Avis, in many ways Dinah’s opposite, rose to prominence in the art world with her quiet manners, hard work, and precise judgment. Despite the deep affection they both feel for Lovie, they have been more or less allergic to each other since a minor incident decades earlier that has been remembered and resented with what will prove to be unimaginable consequences.
These uneasy acquaintances become unwillingly bound to each other when Dinah’s favorite son and Avis’s only daughter fall in love and marry. On the surface, Nick and Grace are the perfect match—a playful, romantic, buoyant, and beautiful pair. But their commitment will be strained by time and change: career setbacks, reckless choices, the birth of a child, jealousies, and rumor. At the center of their orbit is Lovie, who knows everyone’s secrets and manages them 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.
An astute chronicler of everything that makes us human, Beth Gutcheon delivers her most powerful and emotionally devastating novel to date. Gossip is a tale of intimacy and betrayal, trust and fidelity, friendship, competition, and motherhood that explores the myriad ways we use and abuse “information” about others—be it true, false, or imagined—to sustain, and occasionally destroy, one another.
I have one print copy of Gossip by Beth Gutcheon up for grabs! To enter, please just leave a comment below. A winner will be chosen on Friday, March 23. Please note this will be open to US/Canada residents only. Thank you to Leyane @ FSB Associates for sponsoring this giveaway!
This sounds like a fabulous book! Have to read it thanks!
Margaret
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I would love to read this book.
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This sounds like a great book.
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yet another book to put o my list. It looks wonderful.
This one sounds great! I’ll have to add it to my TBR list. 🙂
This one sounds pretty awesome – would love to read it!
Looks like a good read. Please enter me in the contest!
This book is on my wishlist! Talk about serendipity! Thanks for the great giveaway Samantha!
Another fun giveaway
Liked it immediately because of the cover and the book sounds wonderful.
Thanks for the giveaway
Looks like it would be a fun book to read! 🙂
Kathleen
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This book sounds amazing! I would love to win a copy!
It looks like a great book. Would love to read it.
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I love books set in NYC. And this story looks to be no disappointment.
Sounds like a juicy read!
Sounds juicy! I’m in for the read.
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Sound’s great.
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I love anything gossip related (whether it’s actual gossip or a book with the word as its title)! I would love the chance to win this book!