"Baggott's debut novel is a touching coming-of-age story ....[a] multi-layered, psychological tale... " - Publishers Weekly

Girl Talk, a national bestseller, is the story of a thirty-year-old single woman impregnated by her married lover who is suddenly compelled to look back at her fifteenth summer when her father ran off with a redheaded bankteller and she went on a wholly wild adventure through her mother's strange and desperate past. "Baggott's debut novel is a touching coming-of-age story ....[a] multi-layered, psychological tale... Appealingly quirky characters will charm readers." -Publishers Weekly "... a wise look at mother-daughter legacies." -Library Journal "... smart, quirky chronicle of mother daughter bonding and binding." -Glamour “For Baggott, cosmic irony is always in the details, the absurd gap between self-knowledge and behavioral excess ... [Her] brand of witty psychological observation is dark and corrosive... [she] has the knack for finding the oxymoronic in any situation.” -New York Times Book Review “I couldn’t put this book down. Its hilarious, relentless truths are well-served by its author’s tough lyricism. Baggott trains a stern and tender eye onto our cultural markers, using them to signpost her lively trek towards the revelations of love– lost, re-discovered, and, most satisfying of all, unconditional.” -Carol Dawson “Girl Talk is a wonderful story. I was hooked with the very first sentence. The subtle twists and turns are remarkable and the characters vivid and memorable. This is the work of a very talented writer. It was a pleasure to read.” -Jill McCorkle (Girl Talk was also published by a division of Random House UK, Bompiani in Italy, Flammarion in France, Forum in Sweden, Nagel and Kimche in Germany, and Het Spectrum in Holland and Ulisseia in Portugal.)