The Good House

The Good House tells the story of Hildy Good, who lives in a small town on Bostons North Shore. Hildy is a successful real-estate broker, good neighbor, mother, and grandmother. Shes also a raging alcoholic. Hildys family held an intervention for her about a year before this story takes placeif they invite you over for dinner, and its not a major holiday, she advises run for your lifeand now she feels lonely and unjustly persecuted. She has also fooled herself into thinking that moderation is the key to her drinking problem.

ANN LEARY is the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, and two previous books, An Innocent, A Broad and Outtakes from a Marriage. Shehas written short fiction and essays for the New York Times, Ploughshares,NPR s You Must Read This, among various others. Ms. Leary lives with herfamily in northwestern Connecticut.

Mary Beth Hurt, has received three Tony(r) nominations for her work on the New York stage, and has starred in such films as Affliction, Family Man, The World According to Garp, Chilly Scenes of Winter, and Interiors.