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I am especially grateful for the generosity of Diana Hamilton Stockton, Cary Hamilton Twitchell, Ashleigh Hill, Shannon Miles, and Sarah and Michael Sylvester. I owe special thanks for the ingenious contribution of Heather Frederick, and to Linda Ferrer, for her invaluable expertise and her marvelous eye, and her friendship.
As always, my agent and lifelong friend Wendy Weil has provided advice, cheer, and wise counsel and I’m grateful to have her in my life. I am also grateful to my editor Jennifer Brehl, whose wisdom and support has added so much to this process. Thanks also to Lisa Gallagher, Michael Morrison, and the team at Morrow who do so much for their writers, and do it so well. Thank you, truly.
And last and most, to my darling husband, Robin Clements, who is always the hero of my story.
About the Author
In addition to her critically acclaimed Leeway Cottage, BETH GUTCHEON is the author of the novels More Than You Know, Five Fortunes, Saying Grace, Domestic Pleasures, Still Missing, and The New Girls. She has written several film scripts, including the Academy Award nominee The Children of Theatre Street. She lives in New York City.
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ALSO BY BETH GUTCHEON
Leeway Cottage
More Than You Know
Five Fortunes
Saying Grace
Domestic Pleasures
Still Missing
The New Girls
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
GOOD-BYE AND AMEN. Copyright © 2008 by Beth Gutcheon. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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