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Now a New York TimesBestsellerHow can you prove youre not an alcoholicYou cantIts like trying to prove youre not a witch Hildy Good is a townie A lifelong resident of an historic community on the rocky coast of Bostons North Shore she knows pretty much everything about everyone Hildy is a descendant of one of the witches hung in nearby Salem and is believed by some to have inherited psychic gifts Not true of course shes just good at reading people Hildy is good at lots of things 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 staged an intervention and sent her off to rehab Now shes in recoverymore or lessAlone and feeling unjustly persecuted Hildy needs a friend She finds one in Rebecca McCallister a beautiful young mother and one of the towns wealthy newcomers Rebecca feels out-of-step in her new surroundings and 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 firejust one of their secretsBut not everyone takes to Rebecca who is herself the subject of town gossip When Frank Getchell an eccentric local 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 cover her own tracks and protect her reputation When a cluster of secrets become dangerously entwined the reckless behavior of one threatens to expose the other and this darkly comic novel takes a chilling turnTHE GOOD HOUSE by Ann Learyis 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.
About the Author
Ann Leary is the author of the memoir An Innocent, A Broad and the novel Outtakes from a Marriage. She has written fiction and nonfiction for various magazines and literary publications and is a cohost of the NPR weekly radio show Hash Hags. Ann competes in equestrian sports and is a volunteer EMT. She and her family share their small farm in Connecticut with four dogs, three horses, and an angry cat named Sneakers.
