Go Gentle

Maria Semple, author of the runaway bestseller Where'd You go, Bernadette, returns with an uproarious, irresistible heart-tugging story about Adora Hazzard: a divorcee who thinks she has it all figured until a mysterious stranger walks into her life . . .

'I ADORED THIS NOVEL' NINA STIBBE
'LOADED WITH MARIA SEMPLE'S SIGNATURE WIT' BONNIE GARMUS

Adora Hazzard has it all figured out.

A Stoic philosopher and contented divorcee, she relishes her teenage daughter, her job as a moral tutor for an old-money family, and the bliss of finally being solo.

She's also quietly assembling a 'coven' of like-minded single women on the sixth floor of the legendary Ansonia building on New York's Upper West Side. Together, they share groceries, dog walkers - and one dirty little secret: despite their age, they're only just getting started.

Adora's life philosophy is simple: want only what you already have. It's her secret to happiness until a chance encounter with a charming stranger stirs long-buried passions.

Soon, her carefully curated life unravels: black-market art, secret rendezvous, international intrigue and a past she's worked hard to forget crash into her present. Suddenly, Adora finds herself wanting more and she's willing to risk everything to get it.

Go Gentle is a thrilling story of one woman's mid-life transformation, a romance with wit, a page-turner of ideas, a globe-trotting mother-daughter story, all wrapped in a mystery with a socko twist.