Finding Grace
By Loretta Rothschild
St. Martin’s Press, July 2025, 336pp.

The Short of It:

The first chapter cliffhanger left me with my mouth open.

The Rest of It:

I have to be very careful with this review because for me, the draw was the absolute shock of those first few chapters.

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. ~ from the publisher

This was the perfect read. It’s about relationships, love and loss, and what happens when things don’t go quite as planned. How do you deal with such heartache? Can you? Can you go on? How do you rebuild a life when everything seems to have fallen down around you?

This was a clever story. The set-up leads you innocently by the hand and then you are completely sucker-punched in the best possible way. I mean, I was floored. I kept re-reading one page over and over again. Completely in shock. Honestly, I was a little mad at Rothschild because when I settled in for a good read, I had NO idea what I was signing up for. Wow. Well done. And it’s a debut? What?

All I can say is read it. It’s not perfect but what a read.

Source: Review copy provided by the publisher.
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