mhall 's review for:

The Good House by Ann Leary
3.0

3.5. Character-based novel narrated by an alcoholic, middle-aged real estate agent named Hildy, who lives and works in a small New England community near Boston. Funny, unreliable narration, so authentic that a couple passages were boring to me because they felt so small-town - the history of a particular store or person, unrelated to the plot, just details, exactly how the character would talk or narrate her inner life.