Welcome to my website! Here you’ll find my blog, more about my novels (click on the pics below), Reading Group Guides for Book Clubs, and probably way more than you ever needed to know about me.
I love calling in/Skyping or even visiting your book club (if you’re local, or have some kind of unusually large book club author travel budget), so please ask! I do have three busy kids who require lots of squiring about town, but I fit as many book clubs visits into my schedule as I can.
Now Available: The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns
Entertainment Weekly says, “Book-club alert! Dilloway’s exquisite little novel, about a biology teacher who breeds roses so she won’t have to think about her kidney disease, brims with all the heart-tugging appeal of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.”
Available now:
Read the first two chapters: Housewife Excerpt
“This radiant debut pays moving tribute to the power of forgiveness.”– People Magazine, 4 Stars
A 2011 John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist
- An Ingram Premier Pick for March 2010
- An IndieBound Indie Next List Notable Selection, August 2010
HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE is on sale now. Purchase it at any of these retailers:
Have a book club? Click here for discussion questions and info about having me phone into your meeting!
Check out the inspiration for the book, THE AMERICAN WAY OF HOUSEKEEPING.
Read this article about me from Discover Nikkei magazine.
I also have an essay in this fabulous book about the first year of marriage:
