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Hold My Girl
Hold My Girl: The 2023 book everyone is talking about, perfect for fans of Celeste Ng, Liane Moriarty and Jodi Picoult | Charlene Carr
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'Thoughtful, tense and affecting' Ashley Audrain This tense and emotional novel follows the fallout after two women's eggs are switched during IVF. ___________ TWO WOMEN. ONE BABY. A FIGHT LIKE NO OTHER. Katherine has everything under control. After years of struggling to conceive with her partner, Patrick, she finally gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child. But she's afraid that Rose may not be her daughter, her pale skin not matching Katherine's own. Tess never got her happy ending. Just like Katherine, she was also a hopeful IVF mother, but her daughter, Hanna, was stillborn. Now divorced, broke and stuck in a dead-end job, she's beginning to lose all hope. But when Rose is ten months old, both women get a call from the fertility clinic. There was a mistake: their eggs were switched. It will take a custody battle like no other to decide who will get to be Rose's mother – a battle that will push them both to the brink... This is a story about what it means to be a mother, and the lengths we go to for the people we love. ___________ 'Thoughtful, tense and affecting' Ashley Audrain, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Push 'An absorbing and engaging novel that twists the heart' Rachel Hore, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Spy 'Breathtakingly taut, unflinching and poignant' Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of LUCKY 'Compelling and thought-provoking ... A page-turner' Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake 'A tender exploration of secrets, loss, and motherhood' Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She's Black 'A future classic' Leah Hazard, Sunday Times bestselling author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story 'Will break your heart' Julie Ma, author of Richard and Judy selected debut Happy Families
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Up next on audio…this is for my book club. I‘ve heard there‘s lots of topics to discuss!

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Alfoster
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Bittersweet novel about a switch in a fertility lab that leaves Katherine (who is bi-racial) with a lily-white baby whom she adores. But when Tess, who worked at the lab, realizes she could really be the bio mom, everything falls apart! Custody issues, marriage secrets, and infidelity all come to light.
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This is a story about a custody battle that ensues between two women when an IVF clinic admits that eggs were switched. It is an emotional read that deals with motherhood, racism, parental expectations, mental health, marriage and moral choices. The author has done a wonderful job of imagining the anguish that two mothers fighting over one child would feel and of giving them both full, complicated characters. It is a hard book to put down. 4/5