Patricia Gaffney – författare

“Gaffney’s characters are appealing and realistic…Readers will race through this book.”—New Orleans Times Picayune

“Poignant….Entertaining….As good as it gets.”—New York Post

No other author writes about the lives and friendships of women with more warmth and grace than New York Times bestseller Patricia Gaffney.  A true master of women’s fiction, with Circle of Three she flourishes the same breathtaking characterization and storytelling skills that made her previous novel, The Saving Graces, a readers’ favorite. The story of a woman grieving for her losses and her life, and her relationship with her overbearing mother and precocious young daughter, Circle of Three focuses on three generations of a troubled family, the anger and misunderstanding that separates them…and the love that holds them together. Gaffney does beautifully what Elizabeth Berg, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Anne Tyler also do so well: exploring the tricky bonds of family in novels both heart-soaring and heartbreaking.

Anna has studiously avoided her Aunt Rose—the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world—ever since the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother, Rose''s own fatally ill sister. In the sixteen years that have passed, Anna has built another life for herself far from her hometown on Maryland''s eastern shore, but she can''t forgive or forget.

Now another betrayal, by a faithless lover, has brought Anna back to her family''s restaurant, where Rose needs her estranged niece''s help—and trust—more than ever before. Determined to leave as soon as the struggling business is back on its feet and her own hurt is healed, Anna joins Rose in the kitchen of the Bella Sorella, resolved to remain unaffected by Rose''s longing to undo the past. But Anna''s resistance could blind her to a true and unexpected love that''s reaching out to grab her by the heart.

New York Times bestselling author patricia gaffney''s Flight Lessons is a poignant, funny, and wise story of truth, loyalty, and the bonds that shape, sustain, and ultimately uplift us.

Featuring an In Death story from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb, this thrilling anthology ventures into a world where the rules of love, time, and place can be forever lost...In J. D. Robb’s "Missing in Death," Detective Eve Dallas investigates a female tourist’s disappearance during a ferry ride and starts to wonder…if she didn’t jump, and she’s not on board, then where in the world is she? In Patricia Gaffney’s "The Dog Days of Laurie Summer," a woman awakens after a severe accident to find a world as familiar as it is unsettling.In Mary Blayney’s "Lost in Paradise," a man locked in an island fortress finds hope for freedom in an enigmatic nurse.And Ruth Ryan Langan’s "Legacy" belongs to a young woman who unearths a family secret buried on the grounds of a magnificent but imposing Irish castle. 

The poor thing was cold and trembling, abandoned on their front doorstep. Dash, impulsive as always, decides on the spot that they should keep it. But her husband, Andrew, thinks it''s the craziest thing he''s ever heard. A fight over a scruffy little dog doesn''t seem like much of a reason to walk out on your husband of twenty years—but the spat over the puppy is just the last of many straws.

Dash is so tired of the faculty parties at Mason-Dixon College that Andrew insists they attend even though he won''t mingle with his colleagues, tired of his constant fretting over illnesses he doesn''t have, tired of the glass of warm milk he must have every night before bed. Why can''t he see that with her mother gone and their daughter off at college, Dash needs something more?

Now, living on her own for the first time in years, Dash can do whatever she wants . . . if only she could figure out what that is. But every time she starts making plans for the future, she finds herself thinking about the past—remembering the mother she''s lost, her daughter''s childhood, and the husband she isn''t entirely sure she wants to leave behind. . . .

By turns poignant and hilarious—often on the same page—Mad Dash is a novel about the funny ways love has of catching up to us despite our most irrational efforts to leave it behind.