BOOKS
The Good House
Ann LearyRRP: £7.99
3 July 2014
Published by Corvus
ISBN: 9781782393221
RRP: £4.99
15 June 2013
Published by Corvus
ISBN: 9781782393214
LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2014
Hildy Good has reached that dangerous time in a woman’s life – middle-aged and divorced, she is an oddity in her small but privileged town. But Hildy isn’t one for self-pity and instead meets the world with a wry smile, a dark wit and a glass or two of Pinot Noir. When her two earnest grown-up children stage an ‘intervention’ and pack Hildy off to an addiction centre, she thinks all this fuss is ridiculous. After all, why shouldn’t she enjoy a drink now and then?
But we start to see another side to Hildy Good, and to her life’s greatest passion. Soon, a cluster of secrets become dangerously entwined, with devastating consequences…
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