Gail Godwin

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    May 2020
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Glass people

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    "POWERFUL. . .GODWIN IS BRILLIANT. . .DEFTLY PLOTTED AND IMAGINED. . . It deepened my long-cherished belief about certain forms of art: that in exploring extremities of human behavior, in forcing us to wade through real or metaphorical blood, such ...

  • The Odd Woman

    "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 te...

  • Dream Children

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    "Compelling, beautiful. . .Miraculous. . . Astonishing. . . So deeply satisfying, as to be breathtaking."
    --The Philadelphia Inquirer
    In fifteen extraordinary and lyrical short stories, esteemed novelist Gail Godwin has created worlds in which ...

  • Violet Clay

    Violet Clay had come to New York City from Charleston to take the art world by storm. But nine years, many affairs, and thousands of drinks later, the reality of her shadow life is made clear when she is fired from her job as a freelance illustrator....

  • A Mother and Two Daughters

    The husband Nell loved for forty years is gone, leaving her to face the tired rituals of genteel Southern widowhood...and the endless, destructive rivalry between her grown children. Relentlessly truthful Cate, who sacrifices people to ideals, is ...

  • Mr. Bedford

  • Mr. Bedford and the Muses

  • The Finishing School

    Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside hut also known as the “finishing school,” eccentric, fre...

  • A Southern Family

    The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics -- evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of Eudora Welty, Pat Conr...



  • Father Melancholy's Daughter

    A touching and exhilarating tale of a father and daughter wounded by betrayal, who build a new life together out of hope and dreams and love....

  • The Good Husband

    "[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, mi...

  • The Perfectionists

    “Real artistry . . . A finely crafted and absorbing novel.” -- Los Angeles Times

    Dane is an American magazine journalist, and John, a British psychotherapist. He says he knows everything about her, how she thinks, what she wants from life....

  • Evensong

    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 t...

  • Evenings at Five

    Every evening at five o’clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour. Rudy mixed Christina’s drink with loving precision, the cavalier slosh of Bombay Sapphire over ice shards, before settling across fr...

  • Queen of the Underworld

    In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and be...

  • Unfinished Desires

    IT IS THE FALL OF 1951 AT MOUNT ST. GABRIEL'S, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mys...

  • Flora

    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 gr...

  • Grief Cottage

    The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a ha...

  • Old Lovegood Girls

    "As always, wry, beady­eyed, acute." -Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

    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...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gail Godwin has published 19 books.

Gail Godwin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Old Lovegood Girls, was published in May 2020.

The first book by Gail Godwin, Glass people, was published in January 1972.

No. Gail Godwin does not write books in series.
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