Finding Grace
A Novel
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3.8 • 6 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A July Indie Next Pick • "A strikingly original and deeply moving debut." —People • "Begins with such a gasp-inducing twist that it's almost impossible to describe." —Real Simple • "The literary book of the summer." —Sarah Gelman, CBS Mornings
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS FATE. I KNEW IT WASN'T....
Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works one hundred hours a week. Yet Honor’s longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it―until a shocking event changes their lives forever.
Years later, Tom makes a decision that ripples through their families' lives in ways he could never have foreseen. As the consequences of that fateful choice unfold, two women's paths become irrevocably intertwined. But when old love clashes with new, who will be left standing? And what happens when your secrets come back to haunt you?
Blending a page-turning moral dilemma with satisfying emotional poignancy, Finding Grace is a sweeping love story that explores the price of a new beginning, how the ghosts of our past shape our future, and whether redemption can be found in the wreckage of what we've lost.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Rothschild's emotionally charged debut, a widower falls for his family's egg donor as the ghost of his wife watches on. Tom loses his wife, Honor, and their daughter, who's four, in the gut-wrenching opening chapter, when they're killed by a suicide bomber in Paris during the family's Christmas holiday. Back home in London, Tom learns that the couple's latest attempt for a baby—using an egg donor and carried by a surrogate—has been successful. Four years later, Tom, having quit his finance job to be a full-time dad to his son, Henry, leads a fulfilling if somewhat lonely life, watched over by Honor's spirit, who narrates the book from beyond the grave. A misaddressed letter reveals the identity of Henry's egg donor, Grace, prompting Tom to drop by her wine shop. Without revealing their connection, Tom falls hard for Grace, who looks just like Honor. Enjoyment of the novel requires suspension of disbelief—Grace, a small business owner, spends stunningly little time at her shop—and there's less tension in the looming revelation of Tom's deceit than the author intends. Better are Honor's tender flashbacks to their marriage and her musings about the challenges of fertility. The novel's examination of love and family will leave readers with plenty to chew on.
