Book Review and Giveaway: Gossip by Beth Gutcheon

Synopsis: 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.

Review: This is a quick read- I finished it in two sittings- as the story just flows so quickly!
It was an interesting tale that shows how simple 'gossip' can create a domino effect that can literally come back decades later to haunt the involved parties-both victim and gossiper. Gutcheon's characters come alive on the pages and quite frankly you will learn to love, and hate, them. Which is why when the ending comes, you feel blindsided. But then you realize the clues were leading up to it. And like human nature that she explores in the book, we frequently don't see the proverbial writing on the wall until it's too late.I can easily see the book made into a Lifetime miniseries. It should be the talk of the Summer!

About the Author: Beth Gutcheon is the critically acclaimed author of eight previous novels- in fact Beth's previous novel, Still Missing was made into the movie Without A Trace. She is the writer of several film scripts, including the Academy Award nominee The Children of Theatre Street. She lives in New York City. For more information please check out her website and Facebook page.


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