In the riveting new novel from the number one best-selling author of Something Borrowed and First Comes Love, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values….
“An unpredictable page-turner that unfolds in the voices of three superbly distinct characters.” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
“A gripping, thought-provoking journey.” (Jodi Picoult)
Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville’s elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and their adored son has been accepted to Princeton. Yet sometimes the middle-class small-town girl in Nina wonders if she’s strayed from the person she once was.
Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs while struggling to raise his headstrong daughter, Lyla. His road has been lonely, long, and hard, but he finally starts to relax after Lyla earns a scholarship to Windsor Academy, Nashville’s most prestigious private school. Amid so much wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn’t always fit in – and her overprotective father doesn’t help – but in most ways, she’s a typical teenage girl, happy and thriving.
Then, one photograph, snapped in a drunken moment at a party, changes everything. As the image spreads like wildfire, the Windsor community is instantly polarized, buzzing with controversy and assigning blame. At the heart of the lies and scandal, Tom, Nina, and Lyla are forced together – all questioning their closest relationships, asking themselves who they really are, and searching for the courage to live a life of true meaning.
Domestic Drama Lacks Subtly, But Stays Entertaining I’ve read a good many of Emily Giffin’s books and she’s definitely a talented author, but don’t go into this one expecting a lighthearted rom-com. The story here, despite its fairly festive, and slightly deceptive cover and title, is no romantic romp. In her more recent novels, Giffin has trended towards more serious family drama, and with this one she jumps into that deep end for sure.This is the story of the Brownings, one of Nashville’s golden couples whose son, Finch, attends a…
3.5!!! One photo will irreversibly change the lives of two families in the latest Emily Giffin novel.Nina Browning has it all. She’s married, she’s rich and her son was recently accepted into Princeton. She had everything she wanted. She gives back to her community by dedicating her free time to her philanthropy and attending event after event on the arm of her handsome husband.Nina didn’t come from money. Her life could have been very different if she had remained with her…
Tom is desperately trying to be a good father to Lyla Summary:Have you ever stopped and wondered how you got somewhere? With this man, living this life? Nina Browning should be ecstatic. She is part of the Nashville elite with a charismatic husband and a son that was just accepted into Princeton. It all seems wrong, though. The preoccupation with material wealth, the inability to really connect with her husband or son… this just isn’t who she is. Any of it.Tom is desperately trying to be a good father to Lyla, his beautiful…