Ann Learys The Good House creates a one-of-a-kind character in Hildy Good...By the end youll be flipping pages, trying desperately to piece together what happened as much as the narrator is doing herself. --Jodi Picoult Hildy Good has reached that dangerous time in a womans life - middle-aged and divorced, she is an oddity in her small but privileged town. But Hildy isnt one for self-pity and instead meets the world with a wry smile, a dark wit and a glass or two of Pinot Noir. When her two earnest grown-up children stage an intervention and pack Hildy off to an addiction centre, she thinks all this fuss is ridiculous. After all, why shouldnt she enjoy a drink now and then? But we start to see another side to Hildy Good, and to her lifes greatest passion. Soon, a cluster of secrets become dangerously entwined, with devastating consequences...