My latest novel, The Blue Window, was published in January 2023 by Scribner. The paperback has just been released.

I am the author of four previous novels: The Dogs of Littlefield, The Ghost at the Table, A Perfect Arrangement, and A Crime in the Neighborhood, which won Great Britain’s Orange Prize, now The Women’s Prize. 

My nonfiction book, Missing Lucile, is part memoir and part biography, an attempt to construct the life of my grandmother, who died young, for my father, who always said he never had a mother, but during his last years wanted to know the woman he’d missed. 

I have also written frequently for The New York Times and The Washington Post, and published essays and articles in numerous magazines. For many years I taught creative writing, first at Harvard University and then at Boston College and at the Ranier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, WA.  Currently, I am the Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. My husband and I live outside of Boston. We have two daughters.

If book clubs would be interested in a virtual or in-person visit, I would be happy to talk about The Blue Window or any of my earlier books.