She wants to start a family with her new husband, but is unable to love this man. When they got married, eight years ago, the country was going through the Great Depression. Sylvie is married to a man named Gerald who can afford to give her the life that she wanted while she was growing up. “Garden of Lies” is the first book in the “Garden of Lies” series. Her first adult novel, “Garden of Lies” is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated in over twenty languages. She has incorporated all of her good times and bad times into a novel somehow. Eileen Goudge describes her journey as welfare mother to millionaire. Throughout all of that, she wrote fifteen women’s fiction novels. Her writing is what funded her and her family’s life while she was married a few times, a single mother, and moving to New York. She is someone who hears what people tell her, and then puts it in one of her novels. When they met face to face, it was love at first sight, even though they knew each other and have been married since 1996. After their first three hour chat, it started a ritual where they talked on the phone every night due to the fact that he lived in Arizona and she in New York. He is known as the “taxi TV” film critic. They met when he interviewed her on air on his radio talk show (he called her after she asked him to and they talked for three hours), his name is Sandy Kenyon. She is the wife of a film critic who she says is not her first but will be her last marriage. Goudge has also written other stand alone works for readers of all kinds. Eileen Goudge was born in San Mateo, California, and is the author of many novels (and even a cookbook) including a series of novels called the “Garden of Lies”, “Sweet Valley High” series (for teens), and a mystery series called “Cypress Bay” series.

Bones and Roses by Eileen Goudge