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Written by Lolly Winston - Audio book performed by Amanda Foreman - Abridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Time Warner Audiobooks (April 2004)

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When 36-year-old Sophie Stanton's husband dies of cancer, she desperately wants to be a graceful, composed Jackie Kennedy kind of window. Alas, Sophie is more of a Jack Daniels kind. Adding her job and her waistline to her list of things lost, she moves from L.A. to Ashland, Oregon, prepared to defy the dismal weather and be rescued by Sam Shepard's twin. Instead, she finds an embittered 13-year-old girl with a fascination for fire, a job as Salad Girl at the local French restaurant, and an alarmingly cute actor who Sophie wished she didn't quite trust so much. Listeners will laugh and cry along with Sophie as she proves to the world and herself that she can recover from something devastating with darkly comic humor and her own type of class. Good Grief is the perfect audiobook for anyone who has ever been heartbroken, lost someone they've loved, or eaten too many Oreos.

About the Author: Lolly Winston, born and raised in the glamorous insurance capital of Hartford, Conn., Lolly Winston holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with Alan Gurganus, and wrote a collection of short stories as her thesis.

In the early eighties she went to Hawaii for eight days and stayed for eight years, boogie boarding and working as a corporate copy writer and public affairs officer at a local trauma hospital.

She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early nineties, where she continued to work as a public relations professional. Her first foray into freelance journalism was as a stringer for Automotive News. After falling off the corporate ladder she began working from home as a freelance writer for high-tech companies, and the San Jose Mercury News. Since then her work has appeared in the magazines Redbook, Family Circle, Working Mother, New Woman, Sunset, Lifetime and others. She has published short fiction in The Sun. She has also taught classes in freelance writing.

She lives with her husband in Northern California.

About the Performer: Amanda Foreman has appeared in numerous television series including her starring role as Meghan Rotundi on FELICITY, and numerous guest appearances on ALIAS, SIX FEET UNDER, and NASH BRIDGES. Her film credits include the HBO original feature, BREAST MEN, ON THE LINE, and PURGATORY FLATS.