The Goodbye Summer is an unforgettable novel about daring to love, braving a loss, and setting yourself free, by Patricia Gaffney , the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, The Saving Graces . Poignantly exploring one woman's inner growth and self discovery over the course of a season of profound change, The Goodbye Summer is women's fiction at its finest-heartbreaking, healing, emotional, and real. As Nora Roberts so aptly puts it, Patricia Gaffney "r eminds us what it's like to be a woman."