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Mary-Beth Hughes

Biography

Mary-Beth Hughes

Mary-Beth Hughes is the author of the best selling novel, Wavemaker II, a New York Times Notable Book and the acclaimed collection DOUBLE HAPPINESSwhich earned Hughes a Pushcart Prize. Her stories have been published in The Paris ReviewPloughsharesThe Georgia Review and A Public Space. She lives in Brooklyn and Rhinebeck, NY.

Mary-Beth Hughes

Books by Mary-Beth Hughes

by Mary-Beth Hughes - Fiction

From the outside in, the Devlin family lead almost-perfect lives. Dashing father Nick is a successful businessman long married to sweetheart Jean, who upholds the family home and throws dinner parties while daughter Lily attends Catholic school and is disciplined into modesty by the nuns. Under the surface, however, the Devlins are silently broken by the death of their little boy. As Nick’s older brother inducts Nick into the cut-throat world of cosmetics, the Devlin family are further fragmented by betrayals and victims of the cruelest kind of hurt.