joining us now you a are to this of the novel "the good house" ann leary back on the show. >> you have been writing and writing and writing. >> you just write. you got a crazy husband so you got to tune that out and you go into your room and close the door and you write. you've written another one "the good house." tell us about it. >> it is set on the north shore of boston not unlike marblehead a town i lived in growing up and it's about a woman named hildy goode, she's a real estate broker and it's set today, the market's not doing so great. and her town is changing as all small towns are, you know, with small businesses not doing so well and she has another problem which is that her grown daughters think she has a drinking problem and it's a problem for her because she knows she doesn't and so the book is told from the point of a view from a woman who may or may not be an alcoholic in denial. >> ooh. >> and how many daughters? >> she's got two grown-up daughters. >> yeah. so she's of a certain age. and she's a really yankee. she's a real new englander and i mean that in

and with the release of her third book ann leary, the wife of denis leary, is proving more than just> she has a shameful secret. one of the things you said so interesting was that women drink differently than men. >> she's a successful real estate broker and doesn't seem to have any kinds of problems, so she has to actually -- she comes one a workable solution where she drinks by herself. that's maybe more common with women than men than drinking alone after the kids are in bed, with younger women, maybe, and i'm not talking about a cup of wipe after work but i'm talking drinking to drunkenness night after night might be something some women can relate to. >> reporter: it's certainly something ann herself can relate to. >> hildy may or may not have a drinking problem. but i'm in recovery. >> reporter: going back to the days when you were drinking how would you describe the ann who was drinking? >> i would say most people who knew me really didn't know i had a drinking problem at all. i would go out and have a couple glasses of wine with friends. i'm the kind of drinker who has no shu