Philip Beard’s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio’s letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington. DEAR ZOE is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naïve, world-worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. Tess begins her letter to Zoe as a means of figuring out her own life – her place in the world – but the result is a novel of rare power and grace that tells us much about ours.


DEAR ZOE HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO THREE LANGUAGES








LOST IN THE GARDEN follows over privileged, under motivated, golf-and-sex-obsessed Michael Benedict, as he navigates a mid-life crisis that is both hilarious and compelling. As he did in his powerful debut, DEAR ZOE, Philip Beard has created a voice so authentic you won’t read it so much as you will hear it. A deft tightrope walk between heartbreak and hilarity, LOST IN THE GARDEN is a sports book that’s about everything but sports, a man’s book that’s just as much for women, and a novel for anyone who wakes up some mornings feeling like life is a work in progress.















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