Nina de Gramont Shares Her Book, Gossip of the Starlings
On UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, December 19, at 9:30 PM

In Nina De Gramont's chilling novel Gossip of the Starlings is a portrait of an adolescent girl so thoroughly seduced by a peer that she willingly follows her to ruin.

When Gossip’s Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the charismatic and beautiful Skye Butterfield, daughter of the famous Senator Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is a young woman hell-bent on a trajectory of self-destruction, and she doesn't care who is taken down with her. No matter the transgression—a stolen credit card, a cocaine binge, an affair with a teacher, an accident that precipitates the end of Catherine's promising riding career—Catherine can neither resist Skye's spell nor stop her downward spiral.

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Friday, December 19, at 9:30 PM, de Gramont reveals her engrossing tale of a world that is both appealing and astonishing, full of young women with the minds of teenagers: willful, selfish, daring, and cruel—all the while believing they're utterly indestructible.

Don’t miss D.G. Martin’s engaging interview with Nina de Gramont on North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, December 19, at 9:30 PM, with an encore Sunday, December 21, at 5 PM.

During the 26-week season of North Carolina Bookwatch, guests also include: Frances Mayes (A Year in the World), Rob Christensen (The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics), Robert Morgan (Boone), Eleanora Tate (Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance), Eric Wilson (Against Happiness), Wayne Caldwell (Cataloochee), Theda Perdue (The Cherokee Nation and The Trail of Tears), Bernie Harberts (Too Proud to Ride a Cow), Therese Fowler (Souvenir), Joe Glatthaar (General Lee’s Army), Nortin Hadler (Worried Sick), Anna Hayes (Without Precedent), Jean Anderson (A Love Affair with Southern Cooking), J.D. Rhoades (Breaking Cover), Nancy Peacock (A Broom of One’s Own), Louise Hawes (Black Pearls), Tony Earley (The Blue Star), Anna Rubino (Queen of the Oil Club) , Clyde Edgerton (The Bible Salesman), Sheila Moses (The Baptism), Martin Clark (The Legal Limit), William Link (Righteous Warrior) and Cindy H. Ramsey (Boys of the Battleship North Carolina).

For additional information about series guests and airdates, plus links to the Bookwatch blog and online book club, please visit: www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.

Funding for North Carolina Bookwatch is provided by UNC-TV members and by Quail Ridge Books and Music, Raleigh’s independent, full service bookstore, bringing readers and writers together since 1984.

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