Books

A sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about all the ways we talk about one another, the sometimes fine line between showing concern and doing damage, and the difficulty of knowing the true obligations of friendship. Now available in paperback. More

In a summer cottage on the coast of Maine, an unlikely love was nurtured, a marriage endured, and a family survived. Now it is time for the children of that marriage to make peace with the wounds and the treasures left to them. And to sort out which is which. More

In this beautifully written tour de force of a novel, Beth Gutcheon takes readers back to the coastal village of Dundee, Maine. There, in a Victorian summer house called Leeway Cottage, we witness the scenes of a long 20th century marriage. More

This spare, piercing, and unforgettable novel bridges two centuries and two intense love stories as Hannah and Conary’s fate is interwoven with the tale of a marriage that took place in Dundee a hundred years earlier. Hannah says, “I don’t suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can’t.” More

In Beth Gutcheon’s richly-plotted novel, Five Fortunes, the lives of five likable but very different women become inextricably linked after they meet at a luxurious Arizona health spa. The friendships forged during a week at The Cloisters, nourished by the shared adventure of food deprivation and rigorous exercise, will prove instrumental in changing each woman’s life in ways she could never have imagined. More

A powerfully moving novel about Rue Shaw, a woman who has everything worth having—a much loved daughter, a solid marriage, and a job she loves—plus one great failing…. More

“Saying Grace is by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking.” —Boston Globe

In Jane Austen’s villages, there were two kinds of manners: good and bad. Domestic Pleasures is a novel of manners set in a city comprised of many villages, each with its own manners and values: modern day New York. It is also a love story. More

“She’s one of those few novelists who writers truthfully about everything life offers” —Susan Isaacs, author of Shining Through

Alex Selky, going on seven, kissed his mother goodbye and set off for school, a mere two blocks away. He never made it. More

“Haunting, harrowing, and highly effective…a stunning shocker of an ending….It strings out the suspense to the almost unendurable.” —Publishers Weekly

The New Girls is a resonant, engrossing novel about five girls during their formative prep-school years in the tumultuous mid-sixties. More

In The Perfect Patchwork Primer every phase of patchwork quiltmaking is covered – choice and handling of fabrics, design, detailed sewing and quilting instruction. Departing from other quilting books, Beth Gutcheon tells us how to use modern technology to speed the making of patchwork without sacrificing quality. More

Beth Gutcheon enjoyed instant fame among those seriously interested in crafts upon publication of her first book, The Perfect Patchwork Primer. In response to requests from across the country, she now has created a new kind of quilt book –a workbook that takes the guess-work out of patchwork, The Quilt Design Workbook. More