Talk Before Sleep

(Paperback)

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The New York Times bestseller 'Until that moment, I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.'They met at a party. It was hate at first sight. Ruth was far too beautiful, too flamboyant. Not at all Ann's kind of person. Until a chance encounter in the bathroom led to an alliance of souls. Soon they were sharing hankies during the late showing of Sophie's World, wolfing down sundaes sodden with whipped cream, telling truths of marriage, mortality and love, secure in a kind of intimacy no man could ever know. After years of shared secrets, guilty pleasures, family life and divorce, they face a crisis that redefines the meaning of friendship and unconditional love. This is the story of Ruth. Of Ann. And of all of us who wonder what we'd say if we knew we didn't have forever.

Reviews

" You'll want to give a copy to every good woman friend you have." -- "The Charlotte Observer"
" Entertaining, finely crafted Elizabeth Berg tackles serious issues with grace" -- "San Francisco Chronicle"
" Tender and irreverant by turns, it offers mature intelligent and buoyant spirit, like a very good friend." -- "Houston Post"

"From the Paperback edition."

"You'll want to give a copy to every good woman friend you have." -- "The Charlotte Observer"
"Entertaining, finely crafted Elizabeth Berg tackles serious issues with grace" -- "San Francisco Chronicle"
"Tender and irreverant by turns, it offers mature intelligent and buoyant spirit, like a very good friend." -- "Houston Post"

"From the Paperback edition."

Author Bio

Elizabeth Berg is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Never Change and Open House, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection in 2000. Joy School was selected as American Library Association Best Book of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep, another New York Times bestseller, was shortlisted for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Bookseller's Award for her body of work, she is also the author of The Pull of the Moon, Range of Motion, What We Keep and Until the Real Thing Comes Along which were all bestsellers in the United States. A former nurse, she lives in Chicago.