Finding Grace
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Publisher Description
'Shocking, stylish, elegant, and twisting. A truly stunning debut' Chris Whitaker, NYT bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark
'One of the best books I've read this year' Jodi Picoult
Jenni Godfrey
**AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR**
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS FATE. I KNEW IT WASN'T.
Honor's life is nearly perfect: 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 that is wonderful - until a shocking event changes everything.
Years later, Tom makes a decision that ripples through their family's life in ways he could never have predicted. As the consequences of his choice continue to unfold, two women's paths become irrevocably intwined.
Blending a page-turning moral dilemma with a sweeping love story, Finding Grace explores the price of secrets and asks whether it's ever too late to tell the truth.
'The darkest beach read imaginable, with a protagonist that no reader could predict' Plum Sykes, author of Wives Like Us
'Full of wisdom and stuffed full of unpredictable twists that kept me engrossed to the end' Daily Mail
'A strikingly original and deeply moving debut' People
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.
