D’Aprix Sweeney, Cynthia

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel The Nest – which was named one of the best books of 2016 by People, The Washington Post, NPR, Amazon, and others and has been optioned and is in development as a limited series – and her work has been translated into more than 28 languages. In Good Company: A Novel (Ecco), Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than 20 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 husband’s wedding ring – the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was 5. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby and keep Julian’s small theater company – Good Company – afloat. Moving to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a TV star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?