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Book Spotlight: Gossip by Beth Gutcheon & Giveaway

Good day everyone!  Today is the release date for Gossip by Beth Gutcheon so we’re going to learn a bit about the book and as an added bonus I’m going to give away a copy to one of my readers.  This novel had me at part of the description which is powerful and emotionally devastating – a novel of betrayal and friendship, etc.  This sure does sound like a book I’m going to enjoy and when I received my copy the other day I wanted nothing more than to tuck right into it.  Unfortunately it’s not to be right now, but soon hopefully.  In the meantime let’s learn more about the book…

 

About Gossip by Beth Gutcheon (from Beth’s website)

The critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know returns with a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about all the ways we talk about one another, the sometimes fine line between showing concern and doing damage, and the difficulty of knowing the true obligations of friendship.

Loviah “Lovie” French owns a small, high-end dress shop on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Renowned for her taste, charm, and discretion, Lovie is the one to whom certain women turn when they need “just the thing” for key life events: baptisms and balls, weddings and funerals. Among those who depend on Lovie’s sage advice are her two best friends since boarding school days: Dinah Wainwright and Avis Metcalf. Despite the love they share for their mutual friend, there has always been a chilly gulf between Dinah and Avis, the result of a perceived slight from decades ago that has unimaginably tragic echoes many years later.

An astute chronicler of all 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 and motherhood that explores the way we use “information” — be it true, false, or imagined — to sustain, and occasionally destroy, one another.

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Buy Gossip at Amazon US, Amazon Canada, B&N, IndieBound and the iBookstore

 

About Beth Gutcheon (from Beth’s website)

Beth Gutcheon grew up in western Pennsylvania. She was educated at Harvard where she took an honors BA in English literature. She has spent most of her adult life in New York City, except for sojourns in San Francisco and on the coast of Maine. In 1978, she wrote the narration for a feature-length documentary on the Kirov ballet school, The Children of Theatre Street, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and she has made her living fulltime as a storyteller (novelist and sometime screenwriter) since then. Her novels have been translated into fourteen languages, if you count the pirate Chinese edition of Still Missing, plus large print and audio format. Still Missing was made into a feature film called Without a Trace, and also published in a Reader’s Digest Condensed version which particularly pleased her mother. Several of her novels have been national bestsellers, including Still Missing, More Than You Know, and Leeway Cottage. All of the novels are available in new uniform paperback editions from HarperPerennial.

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GIVEAWAY DETAILS

I have one copy of Gossip by Beth Gutcheon to share with my readers.  To enter…

  • For 1 entry simply leave me a comment entering the giveaway.
  • For 2 entries, follow my blog. If you already do, thanks and please let me know so I can pass the extra entry on to you as well.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word.
  • For 4 entries, follow me on NetWorked Blogs.  Click here to be taken directly there.  Log into your Facebook account and click follow.  Thanks!

This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winner on Saturday, April 7/12.  Good luck!

Comments

  1. Thanks so much for having another great giveaway. Say hi & hug Sammy for me. 😉

  3. This sounds neat, for a lack of another word. I would love to read this, how do we all talk about one another? Thanks for the chance to win! I’m a follower, tweeted and also follow you on networked. Thanks

  4. The way we talk about one another sometimes impacts lives harshly. I would love to read this.

  8. Oh, I have been hearing such interesting things about this book, and so want to read it! It sounds very scandalous, and like something that would really keep me engaged. I’d love to be entered in your giveaway, Dar! Thanks for hosting it!

    zibilee(at)figearo(dot)net

  14. OH! This book sounds so good!
    I just downloaded “Still Missing” onto my nook!

    please enter me for this giveaway!
    I am a follower
    I posted it on my sidebar
    forevereading at gmail dot com

  15. Love the cover of the book! It would get my attention anywhere. I follow you via email. Thanks for the giveaway.

  19. This book sounds absolutely fantastic! I’d love to give it a good read. Thanks for doing this giveaway!

  26. Hi Dar… No need to enter me. That cover is FANTASTIC. It sounds like a good book. Just wanted to say hi to you, Sammy, and peek at Buddy too! Your blog is fantastic.

  28. yes gossip can cause problems especially to the person being talked about especially if it isnt true

  30. Thank you for offering this contest. I am an avid reader and always appreciate the opportunity to win a book.

  36. Wow this sounds good! It is so true that what people say about others behind there backs can do a lot of damage, and not always only emotionally. It can ruin reputations, lose jobs, etc. Thanks for the giveaway!

  39. Sounds like a good read!

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    Margaret
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  40. Please enter me to win. I have not read any books by this author and would love to.

  46. This definitely sounds like my kind of book. I just love gossip. I would throughly enjoy reading it. Please enter me. Thanks!
    ayancey(at)dishmail(dot)net

  52. You have such a cute dog. Thank you once again for a great giveaway.

    I follow via networked blogs, facebook, and GFC