Hildy Good is the number one real estate agent in her town, a tony place outside of Boston. She is related to a women who was persecuted as a witch in Salem. She is a raging alcoholic but isn't ready to quit when her daughters stage an "intervention." She is off the sauce for awhile but then decides she can have a little wine at home at night. As the story goes, you get a good view of the extent of the drinking and the blackouts that make Hildy a bit of a untrustworthy narrator. She makes friends with a newcomer in town who doesn't know about her trip to Hazelden and makes her a new drinking buddy. Over a year or so, we see Hildy doing good around town and doing some bad as well. She is such a part of the town that she is involved in almost everything. Does the drinking define Hildy? It is hard to say sometimes.
This book has some funny parts and some sad parts. I listened to the audio version and it was well read by Mary Beth Hurt.
