"HER BEST BOOK SO FAR....[It is] one of the most literate, intelligent and powerful novels I have ever read."

--Eugenia Thornton

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Professor Jane Clifford is in her early thirties, smart, and attractive. A popular teacher at a midwestern co[...]

"[A] BRILLIANT, WITTY AND PROVOCATIVE NEW NOVEL."

--San Francisco Chronicle

As a young woman, the brilliant and eternally curious Magda Danvers took the academic world by storm. Then, to everyone's surprise, she married Francis Lake, a mild, midwestern seminarian, who has devot[...]

To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience. With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, Godwin probes our own complexities in characters whose lives oscillate between success and struggle, stoic resolve and quixotic temptation, bitter disappointment and s[...]

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of the Second World War. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A[...]

With an Introduction by Gail Godwin A twentieth-century classic, Thomas Wolfe's magnificent novel is both the story of a young writer longing to make his mark upon the world and a sweeping portrait of America and Europe from the Great Depression through the years leading up to World War II. Upon the[...]

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II.At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died.A fiercely [...]