Books by Eileen Goudge and Complete Book Reviews
Eileen Goudge, Author Signet Book $7.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-451-16291-5
At age 11, Conway left the arduous life on her family's sheep farm in the Australian outback for school in war-time Sydney. ``A lively curiosity and penetrating intellect illuminate this unusually objective account of the author's progress from a...
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Eileen Goudge. Open Road, $14.99 ISBN 978-1-5040-2873-8
In bestseller Goudge’s suspenseful sequel to 2014’s Bones and Roses, movie megastar Delilah Ward rents a beachfront villa in an exclusive gated community in the Northern California town of Cypress Bay. Tish Ballard, the property manager, thinks that
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Eileen Goudge, Author Viking Books $24.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-670-89159-7
In her seventh novel, best-selling Goudge (One Last Dance) delivers every modern cliche required to satisfy readers who like their fiction titillating and predictable. Recovering alcoholic Noelle Van Doren informs her domineering, philandering...
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Eileen Goudge, Author Viking Penguin $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-88575-6
Three sisters about to celebrate their parents' 40th wedding anniversary find themselves at their father's funeral and mother's murder trial in Goudge's (Garden of Lies; Thorns of Truth) latest tale of family secrets, scandals and passion. The...
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Eileen Goudge, Author Viking Books $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-87942-7
Two middle-aged women battle for family, career and love in this melodramatic continuation of the switched-at-birth saga that Goudge began in Garden of Lies (1989). Forty-six years after Sylvie Rosenthal abandoned Rose as a dark-haired newborn and...
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Eileen Goudge, Author Viking Books $23.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-86191-0
The bonds of motherhood are yanked, twisted and stressed to the breaking point in Goudge's brazenly manipulative new novel (after Blessing in Disguise, 1994), which follows the fates of Ellie Porter Nightingale and the infant daughter stolen from...
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Eileen Goudge, Author Viking Books $22.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-670-84961-1
Bestselling author Goudge ( Garden of Lies ) should hit the charts again with her tale of second loves and the emotional interbraiding of two complex family trees. Though the narrative does not sustain the compulsively readable jolt of its beginning
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Eileen Goudge, Author Viking Books $19.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-670-82458-8
In this formulaic but engaging novel by the author of Garden of Lies , characters come in pairs. In Hollywood in the 1950s, jealous Dolly betrays her famous movie star sister, Eve, to the McCarthyite witch-hunters--then suffers everlasting guilt as...
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Eileen Goudge, Author Puffin Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-034887-3
Like cotton candy, the first installment in this quartet of high school murder mysteries is fluffy, fun and not terribly nourishing. An abundance of intrigue, along with a high school full of characters painted in very broad strokes, make for a...
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Eileen Goudge, Author . Viking $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-670-89987-6
"A woman alone is no good to anyone" could be the rallying cry for bestselling author Goudge's kickoff to a new series, the Carson Springs trilogy (following One Last Dance). Situated east of Santa Barbara, Calif., Carson Springs and its
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Eileen Goudge, Author Avon Books $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-75128-0
Louise Greenspan, a flower child of the 1980s, longs for the days before she was born, when freedom of expression was in and alligator shirts were out. Through the personals, she corresponds with Sergeant Pepper, her ""kindred sixties spirit,'' with
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Eileen Goudge, Author Pocket Books $24 (337p) ISBN 978-0-7434-8319-3
Friendship among four Princeton grads stands the test of time-and tough times-in Goudge's latest work of flowery but satisfying women's fiction (after Otherwise Engaged). Jay Gunderson, Franny Richman, Stevie Light and Emerson Fitzgibbons reconnect...
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Eileen Goudge, Author . Perseus/Vanguard $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-1-59315-534-6
As children, sisters Lindsay and Kerri Ann are shunted into the foster care system after their mother is arrested for selling drugs in Goudge’s (The Diary)
charming newest. Lindsay is fortunate enough to be adopted by a loving family, while...
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Eileen Goudge, Author . Perseus/Vanguard $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-1-59315-444-8
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n this page-turning novel, Alice Kessler, the married mother of two sons, is living on the fictional Grays Island, in the Pacific Northwest, when her eight-year-old son is run over while riding his bike. Alice is convinced the driver, Owen White,...
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Eileen Goudge, Author . Viking $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-03216-7
Goudge's third Carson Springs novel (Stranger in Paradise; Taste of Honey) revives familiar themes of family secrets and complicated love lives among California's rich and semifamous. Anna Vincenzi works by day for her domineering sister,...
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Eileen Goudge, Author . Viking $24.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-670-03098-9
An uncanny prescience must have inspired the plot of Goudge's current novel, which seems ripped from recent headlines. The protagonist is Gerry Fitzgerald, a feisty, divorced woman with an intriguing past who played a supporting role in Stranger
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Eileen Goudge, Author, Susan Ericksen, Narrated by , read by Susan Ericksen. BBC Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60283-572-6
As their mother lies dying in a nursing home, two sisters find her diary—and a mother they never knew. Written shortly before their parents' marriage, the diary details their mother's romance with another man, and the sisters are...
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