Beth Gutcheon





Beth Gutcheon

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Beth Gutcheon grew up in western Pennsylvania. She was educated at Harvard where she took an honors BA in English literature. She has spent most of her adult life in New York City, except for sojourns in San Francisco and on the coast of Maine. In 1978, she wrote the narration for a feature-length documentary on the Kirov ballet school, The Children of Theatre Street, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and she has made her living fulltime as a storyteller (novelist and sometime screenwriter) since then. Her novels have been translated into fourteen languages, if you count the pirate Chinese edition of Still Missing, plus large print and audio format. Still Missing was made into a feature film called Without a Trace, and also publishe...more


Average rating: 3.48 · 3,140 ratings · 628 reviews · 19 distinct works
More Than You Know
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
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Leeway Cottage
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions
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Five Fortunes
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Still Missing
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions
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The New Girls
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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Saying Grace
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
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Domestic Pleasures
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
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Gossip: A Novel
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2012
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Good-bye and Amen: A Novel
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions
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Without A Trace
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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“I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.”
Beth Gutcheon, More Than You Know

“I wanted this day, the perfect buttery sun like peach ice cream, the speed, the satin leather of the car seat, the fair. Forbidden fruit, a day like no other. ”
Beth Gutcheon, More Than You Know

“Raymond, through some curious alchemy of his own, had come really to think a divorce was something you could win, as opposed to a situation in which the wounded attempt to contain loss. She once said to her friend Annie, “It’s like fighting over who gets the litterbox after the cat is dead. Raymond has forgotten we ever had a cat; he actually wants the litterbox. Full.” She said Annie had laughed and then Martha cried”
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