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From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times-Bestselling writer of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a significant new story of friendship, devotion, rivalries, payoff, and memory.It may be the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-women school tucked-away in the hills of Vermont. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed king bee of her course, befriends Chloe Starnes, a brand new pupil recently orphaned by the mysterious and untimely death of her mom. Their companionship fills a gap for both women but additionally sets in-motion a series of events that'll greatly influence the span of several lives, such as the girls’ youthful instructor and the school’s matriarch, Mom Suzanne Ravenel.