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Beth Gutcheon

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Beth Gutcheon grew up in western Pennsylvania. She was educated at Harvard where she took an honors BA in English literature. She has spent most of her adult life in New York City, except for sojourns in San Francisco and on the coast of Maine. In 1978, she wrote the narration for a feature-length documentary on the Kirov ballet school, The Children of Theatre Street, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and she has made her living fulltime as a storyteller (novelist and sometime screenwriter) since then. Her novels have been translated into fourteen languages, if you count the pirate Chinese edition of Still Missing, plus large print and audio format. Still Missing was made into a feature film called Without a Trace, and also publishe ...more

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Average rating: 3.49 · 11,955 ratings · 1,883 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors

	More Than You Know 3.61 avg rating — 3,080 ratings — published 2000 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leeway Cottage 3.42 avg rating — 1,555 ratings — published 2005 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still Missing: A Desperate Mother's Search and a Heartrending Suspense Novel with an Unforgettable Climax 3.75 avg rating — 1,273 ratings — published 1980 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gossip 3.27 avg rating — 1,450 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Fortunes: A Wise and Witty Story of Unexpected Friendships and New Dreams 3.65 avg rating — 1,124 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death at Breakfast (Maggie Detweiler and Hope Babbin #1) 3.17 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Girls 3.58 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 1979 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saying Grace 3.46 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Affliction 3.21 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good-bye and Amen 3.20 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 2008 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dear Goodreads Users,
I'm very excited to be giving away two signed copies of DEATH AT BREAKFAST on Goodreads! The giveaway starts today, Monday, November 14th, and ends on Monday, November 21st. All are welcome to enter, so please also consider sharing this with your friends. Looking forward to a successful giveaway! Thank you!
Warmest wishes,
Beth

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“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.”
― Beth Gutcheon, More Than You Know

tags: believe, feel, ghosts, life

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“I wanted this day, the perfect buttery sun like peach ice cream, the speed, the satin leather of the car seat, the fair. Forbidden fruit, a day like no other. ”
― Beth Gutcheon, More Than You Know

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“You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence?”
― Beth Gutcheon, Good-bye and Amen

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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

by Elle Cosimano

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The Hotel Nantucket

by Elin Hilderbrand

5 votes, 16.1%

Two Nights in Lisbon

by Chris Pavone

4 votes, 12.9%

What the Fireflies Knew

by Kai Harris

4 votes, 12.9%

All the Dangerous Things

by Stacy Willingham

3 votes, 9.7%

When We Were Birds

by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

2 votes, 6.5%

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

2 votes, 6.5%

Before You Knew My Name

by Jacqueline Bublitz

2 votes, 6.5%

Those Empty Eyes

by Charlie Donlea

1 vote, 3.2%

My Sweet Girl

by Amanda Jayatissa

1 vote, 3.2%

The Affliction

by Beth Gutcheon

1 vote, 3.2%

Signal Fires

by Dani Shapiro

1 vote, 3.2%

Memphis

by Tara M. Stringfellow

0 votes, 0.0%

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“I'll admit that I was surprised to see two decades of film journalism canonized in the same church as Lincoln, Thoreau, Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson; that's a fairly loose canon.”
― William Zinnser

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“A player whose technical skill is not of the first rank will make gracenotes longer than they should be. As a result he has to shorten the theme notes (unless he is to drag the variation badly.) Short theme notes means less emphasis on the melody.”
― Kirsty Gunn, The Big Music

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“I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I cannot say more than I can say. And I know how deeply this disturbs them, and it would make me smile, this earnest need for foolish anecdote or sharp simple patterns in the story of what happened to us all, except that I have forgotten how to smile.”
― Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary

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“Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

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“There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some of my books should be awarded their own frequent-flier miles, they've traveled so much. I take these volumes on flight after flight with the best of intentions and then end up reading anything and everything else. (Sky Mall! Golf Digest!)”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

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Feb 19, 2013 09:15AM

I'm rereading City of Light by Lauren Belfer to prepare for a program we're doing together at the New York Society Library on Feb 26th. It's wonderfully absorbing and rich. Great to have an excuse to revisit it.

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