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‘Book clubs will have a field day with this one. Thorny mother-daughter relationships and secrets we keep from loved ones burn up the pages’ USA Today
‘This powerful, moving story about the complexities of family life is a real lump-in-the throat read’ Closer
Marian’s biological clock is ticking. She has a dream job as the producer of a hugely successful TV show, a stunning Manhattan apartment and a wonderful relationship with the man she loves. But she wants a baby – and she also has a secret. And when that secret turns up on her doorstep after 18 years, her picture perfect existence begins to take on a life of its own.
Kirby is adopted. She loves her parents and her sister, but she’s never really felt she fitted in. And now she’s 18 there’s nothing to stop her finding her birth mother. But navigating her way, alone, to New York is only the start – and as Marian soon discovers, giving birth is the easy part.
‘This powerful, moving story about the complexities of family life is a real lump-in-the throat read’ Closer
Marian’s biological clock is ticking. She has a dream job as the producer of a hugely successful TV show, a stunning Manhattan apartment and a wonderful relationship with the man she loves. But she wants a baby – and she also has a secret. And when that secret turns up on her doorstep after 18 years, her picture perfect existence begins to take on a life of its own.
Kirby is adopted. She loves her parents and her sister, but she’s never really felt she fitted in. And now she’s 18 there’s nothing to stop her finding her birth mother. But navigating her way, alone, to New York is only the start – and as Marian soon discovers, giving birth is the easy part.
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Reviews
Giffin has a way of tugging on our heartstrings while still making us laugh out loud...[a] perfect recipe
In another surefire hit, [Giffin] serves up pathos, humor, and one doozy of a twist
This powerful, moving story about the complexities of family life is a real lump-in-the throat read
Book clubs will have a field day with this one. Thorny mother-daughter relationships and secrets we keep from loved ones burn up the pages
Emily Giffin ranks as a grand master. Over the course of five best-selling novels, she has traversed the slippery slopes of true love, lost love, marriage, motherhood, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption that have led her to be called 'a modern-day Jane Austen.' With Giffin's use of humor, honesty, originality and, like Austen, a biting social commentary, this modern-day 'woman's novel' sits easily on nightstands and in beach bags. Even Austen would find it hard to put down
Emily Giffin's new novel about the legacy of adoption, WHERE WE BELONG, imagines what happens when an 18-year-old girl tracks down her birth mother...the latest in a string of provocative, imaginative novels that began in 2004 with SOMETHING BORROWED. All the characters [here] are on a journey to find 'where we belong,' and Giffin knits together their journeys with a masterly hand