Ann Leary
Author of The Good House
About the Author
Ann Leary is a cohost of the NPR weekly radio show Hash Hags. She has written fiction and nonfiction for numerous magazines and literary publications. Her books include the memoir An Innocent, A Broad and two novels: Outtakes from a Marriage and The Good House. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: Ann Leary [Photo by Scott M. Lacey]
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption (2019) — Composer — 144 copies, 5 reviews
Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction 79 — Author — 2 copies
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I've Tried Being Nice: Essays by Ann Leary
3.5 stars for The Good House by Ann Leary
I wasn't sure I wanted to read this book about a reformed alcoholic but a couple of goodread friends recommended it and I had to give it a go and I am so glad I did as it is a wickedly entertaining and yet sad read.
Hildy Good is a middle-aged outspoken New England Realtor who is top of her game or so she thinks but is hiding her alcoholism from her family, her town and herself. I loved the depiction of small town life and the relationships formed and broken.
We all know a Hildy Good and I think that while this book is an entertaining look at a real problem it somehow gives the reader an insight into the world and mind of an alcoholic and yet this is done in an entertaining way. I would love to read this book for my local book club as I think it would make an excellent discussion book.
An easy and entertaining read and a book I will recommend.… (more)
I wasn't sure I wanted to read this book about a reformed alcoholic but a couple of goodread friends recommended it and I had to give it a go and I am so glad I did as it is a wickedly entertaining and yet sad read.
Hildy Good is a middle-aged outspoken New England Realtor who is top of her game or so she thinks but is hiding her alcoholism from her family, her town and herself. I loved the depiction of small town life and the relationships formed and broken.
We all know a Hildy Good and I think that while this book is an entertaining look at a real problem it somehow gives the reader an insight into the world and mind of an alcoholic and yet this is done in an entertaining way. I would love to read this book for my local book club as I think it would make an excellent discussion book.
An easy and entertaining read and a book I will recommend.… (more)
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