Good Company: A Novel

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Read with JennaTodayShow Book Club Pick!

"Plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp! Maria Semple

A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia DAprix Sweeney, author of the instantNew York TimesbestsellerThe Nest

Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husbands wedding ringthe one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.

Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julians small theater companyGood Companyafloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies What happened that summer all those years ago And what happensnow

With Cynthia DAprix Sweeneys signature tenderness, humor, and insight,Good Companytells a bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us.

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Sweeney's effectiveness as a novelist stems from her protean sympathy, her ability to move among these characters and capture each one's feelings without judgment. As we see some of the same events from various points of view, we don't learn who was right -- who could ever be right, after all -- but we get a poignant, sometimes comic sense of the way we each experience the same events, the same decisions, the same mistakes. In Sweeney's hands, that's not a recipe for endless conflict, but a road to understanding and -- maybe -- forgiveness. --Washington Post
You don't need to be a fan of Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's bestseller The Nest to appreciate the high stakes, sly class commentary, and masterful storytelling of Good Company--but it wouldn't hurt."--Town & Country
This effervescent, tender second novel by the bestselling author of The Nest is an enthralling saga of a marriage in midlife and the secrets that threaten to upend it.--Oprah Daily
"[Sweeney's] warmth and wit refresh a tale as old as time."--Entertainment Weekly
"From the bestselling author of The Nest comes another charming yet deceptively sharp tale of friendship, family, and all the things that get in the way of both....This is a perfect book for a quick weekend read--warm, funny, yet full of insight."--Elle
"Masterfully building character...and dropping revelations through flashbacks, D'Aprix Sweeney's writing is smooth and propelling. Readers of introspective, relational novels will devour this."--Booklist
"The vivacious and tender second novel by the bestselling author of The Nest is an absorbing, wise, and tender tale of a marriage in mid-life."--O, the Oprah Magazine
"You don't need to be a fan of Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's bestseller The Nest to appreciate the high stakes, sly class commentary, and masterful storytelling of Good Company--but it wouldn't hurt.--Town & Country
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp! Treat yourself to some Good Company. --Maria Semple, author of Today Will Be Different
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's rich love story about friends who become family is generous and heartbreaking and true. I loved The Nest and I love Good Company even more.--Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. The World
This book is SMART. It breathes new life into topics such as love, marriage, parenting, friendship and that old chestnut, betrayal. Set in both an erudite theater-world Manhattan and a golden-hued Hollywood, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney hits a bullseye with every single scene. Good Company is brilliant company.--Elin Hilderbrand, author of 28 Summers
What happens when one accidental discovery changes everything you believe about yourself and the people you love Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's unforgettable characters are so real, so human, and such good company (pun intended) as they struggle with profound questions about the lines between loyalty and secrecy, self-interest and self-preservation--and in doing so, ask us to do the same. Good Company is a beautifully nuanced meditation on marriage and friendship--their messiness and limitations, but also their boundless capacity for reinvention.--Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
With candor and humor, Good Company tackles big issues--the reckoning between artistic ambition and family life, the strange tension between honesty and loyalty, the way time's inevitable passage affects friendships and romance and our sense of self. Once again, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney has written a book you'll stay up all night reading.--Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

Author Bio

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children. She has an MFA from Bennington.