“A gifted storyteller…her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty…individual and real.”

-Susan Isaacs, NY Times Reserve Review

The critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and A LOT MORE THAN YOU UNDERSTAND, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing reasons for having others, the results of rumor, and the unpredicted price of friendship. A story arranged among the wealthy, famous, and well-dressed of Manhattan’s Top East Side, Gossip can be a bravura screen of this outstanding author’s breathtaking abilities, addressing important styles of motherhood, friendship, and fidelity. Every reader who admires the solid, character-driven women’s fiction of Sue Miller, Alice Hoffman, Elizabeth Berg, and Kaye Gibbons should give an hearing to Beth Gutcheon’s Gossip.