"Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives."-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon.
And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most..
Each questioning everything they once believed.
Each being tested in ways they never thought possible.
In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances.
But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.
Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children.
After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance--and even to some degree, friendships--believing that it is always safer not to expect too much.
Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie--a boy who has never known his father.
From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life.
Despite her own mother\'s warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. "Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives."-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon
