The New York Times bestselling author of the much-beloved The Saving Grace is back with a warm, winning new novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and learning to live a little.

How much change can one summer bring? If you're Caddie Winger—thirty-two years old, still living with her grandmother and giving piano lessons to neighbor hood children—one summer can make the whole world look different.

Caddie's mother died when she was nine, and her grandmother raised her Now their roles are reversed, and it's Caddie who takes care of Nana. When he grandmother breaks a leg and insists on going into a convalescent home, Caddie finds herself being pulled out of her comfy, self-made nest. Living alone for the first time since college, she uncovers some startling truths from her past.

Jolted, she looks at the world with new eyes and begins to take charge of he future. As she makes a new best friend, takes risks she never dreamed she could and navigates the depths and shallows of 1 love and devastating heartbreak Caddie learns how to trust other people and, ultimately, how to trust herself.

Wise, moving and reassuringly real, The Goodbye Summer offers us a deeper understanding of the perplexing and invigorating magic that is life itself.

Patricia Gaffney lives in southern Pennsylvania with her husband and their Jack Russell terrier, Finney.

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