Gail Godwin is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including Unfinished Desires, Flora, Grief Cottage, and Old Lovegood Girls, and two story collections. A lifelong diarist, she has published the first two volumes of her journals, excerpts from which were published in Narrative. Godwin is also the author of Getting to Know Death: A Meditation (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Heart: A Natural History of the Heart-Filled Life. She lives in Woodstock, New York.

Photograph by Jolanta Drozd Kaminski.

Old Lovegood Girls

A Novel Excerpt

by Gail Godwin
1968, New York City

When Feron would wake yet again from what she called “the visit to Merry dream,” she would lie in bed in whatever apartment she was staying and demand of the empty room: “Am I going to keep having this dream till I die?”
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