Old Lovegood Girls - Hardcover

Godwin, Gail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1632868229 ISBN 13: 9781632868220

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Flora and Evensong comes the story of two remarkable women and the complex friendship between them that spans decades.

When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair Feron Hood with Merry Jellicoe as roommates in 1958, she has no way of knowing the far-reaching consequences of the match. Feron, who has narrowly escaped from a dark past, instantly takes to Merry and her composed personality. Surrounded by the traditions and four-story Doric columns of Lovegood, the girls--and their friendship--begin to thrive. But underneath their fierce friendship is a stronger, stranger bond, one comprised of secrets, rivalry, and influence--with neither of them able to predict that Merry is about to lose everything she grew up taking for granted, and that their time together will be cut short.

Ten years later, Feron and Merry haven't spoken since college. Life has led them into vastly different worlds. But, as Feron says, once someone is inside your “reference aura,” she stays there forever. And when each woman finds herself in need of the other's essence, that spark--that remarkable affinity, unbroken by time--between them is reignited, and their lives begin to shift as a result.

Luminous and literary, Old Lovegood Girls is the story of a powerful friendship between talented writers, two college friends who have formed a bond that takes them through decades of a fast-changing world, finding and losing and finding again the one friendship that defines them.

About this title

About the Author:

Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including the novels Grief Cottage, Flora, Father Melancholy's Daughter, and Evensong, and Publishing, a memoir. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Woodstock, New York. www.gailgodwin.com

Review:

“Deeply satisfying.” ―Sarah Lyall, The New York Times, on GRIEF COTTAGE

“A testament to the power of storytelling to bring solace when none other is possible.” ―Washington Post on FLORA

“An elegant little creeper of a story.” ―Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air on FLORA

“Gail Godwin brings grace, honesty, and enormous intelligence to every page.” ―Ann Patchett on FLORA

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1632868229
• ISBN 13: 9781632868220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352