Ann Leary
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
"The Good House tells the story of Hildy Good, who lives in a small town on Boston's North Shore. Hildy is a successful real-estate broker, good neighbor, mother, and grandmother. She's also a raging alcoholic. Hildy's family held an intervention for her about a year before this story takes place--"if they invite you over for dinner, and it's not a major holiday," she advises "run for your life"--and now she feels lonely and unjustly persecuted. She...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Ann Leary and her husband, then unknown actor-comedian Denis Leary, flew to London in the early nineties for a brief getaway during Ann's second trimester of pregnancy, neither anticipated the adventure that was in store for them. The morning after their arrival, Ann's water broke as they strolled through London's streets. A week later their son, Jack, was born weighing only two pounds, six ounces, and it would be five long months before
4) The children
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home, the sprawling Connecticut lake house that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman, and the generations of Whitmans before him. While Charlotte and her sister, Sally, grew up at "Lakeside", their stepbrothers, Spin and Perry, were welcomed as weekend guests. Now the grown boys own the estate, which Joan occupies by their grace--and a provision in the family trust. When Spin, the youngest and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story about the authors grandmother, 'The Foundling' is the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution - one as an employee and the other, an inmate. From the author of 'The Good House', soon to be a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline.