Patricia Gaffney

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Romance

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Patricia Gaffney was born in Tampa, Florida, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and also studied literature at Royal Holloway College of the University of London, at George Washington University, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After college, Gaffney taught 12th grade English for a year before becoming a freelance court reporter, a job she pursued in North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C., for the next fifteen years.

Her first book, a historical romance, was published by Dorchester in 1989. Between then and 1997, she wrote 11 more romance novels (Dorchester; Penguin USA), for wh...more

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Books by Patricia Gaffney

Average rating: 3.64 · 10,196 ratings · 1,092 reviews · 23 distinct works

	The Saving Graces 3.70 avg rating — 4,469 ratings — published 1999 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Circle of Three 3.45 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Goodbye Summer 3.19 avg rating — 502 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Flight Lessons 3.32 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2002 — 24 editions	My rating:
	To Have and To Hold (Wyckerley Trilogy, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mad Dash: A Novel 2.85 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Wild at Heart 3.75 avg rating — 247 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	To Love and to Cherish (Wyckerley Trilogy #1) 3.91 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sweet Everlasting 3.52 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Crooked Hearts 3.57 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Series by Patricia Gaffney

Wyckerley Trilogy (3 books)
by Patricia Gaffney

3.93 avg rating — 615 ratings

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Quotes by Patricia Gaffney

“I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.”
― Patricia Gaffney, The Saving Graces

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“laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex.”
― Patricia Gaffney, The Saving Graces

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“You were the best thing in my life … I did love you. I do. As much as I’ve ever loved anyone, as much as I can. It feels like a lot – it takes up my whole heart.”
― Patricia Gaffney, The Saving Graces

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