GAIL GODWIN is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of thirteen critically acclaimed novels, including A Mother and Two Daughters, Violet Clay, The Finishing School, Father Melancholy’s Daughter, The Good Husband, and Evensong. She is also the author of The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961– 1963, and The Making of a Writer, Volume Two: Journals, 1963–1969, edited by Rob Neufeld. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. With the composer Robert Starer, she has written ten musical works, including the chamber opera The Other Voice: A Portrait of St. Hilda of Whitby. Visit her website at www.gailgodwin.com.
NOVELS Unfinished Desires (2009)
Queen of the Underworld (2006)
Evenings at Five (2003)
Evensong (1999)
The Good Husband (1994)
Father Melancholy’s Daughter (1991)
A Southern Family (1987)
The Finishing School (1984)
A Mother and Two Daughters (1982)
Violet Clay (1978)
The Odd Woman (1974)
Glass People (1972)
The Perfectionists (1970)
STORY COLLECTIONS Mr. Bedford and the Muses (1983)
Dream Children (1976)
NONFICTION Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myths and Meanings (2001)
The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961–1963 (2006)
The Making of a Writer, Volume Two: Journals, 1963–1969 (2011)
Copyright © 2013 by Gail Godwin
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
library of congress cataloging-in-publication data
Godwin, Gail.
Flora : a novel / Gail Godwin.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-62040-121-7
1. Girls—Fiction. 2. Guardian and ward—Fiction.
3. Bildungsromans. I. Title.
PS3557.O315F58 2013
813’.54—dc23
2012036741
First U.S. Edition 2013
This electronic edition published May 2013
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