This was a thrilling and dramatic novel that kept me engaged throughout the entire journey. The writer’s depiction of the characters was spot on. Highly recommended.

Jo had thought that her life – and her heart – was full. With a busy job, a husband and a teenage daughter who is going off the rails, keeping her life running smoothly had already felt hard enough.

But now Jo sits at the funeral of her best friend Ginny, crushed by the loss of a friendship that had endured for thirty years: from college and their first days at work through to settling down and raising their own children.

Against her husband’s wishes, Jo has made a life-changing decision: to take in Ginny’s teenage son Victor and raise him as her own. But Victor’s arrival is about to break open the fragile cracks that were already forming on the surface of Jo’s family life and in her small rural community… and expose a secret that has remained hidden for many years, with devastating consequences.

I tried to get into this book I really did. It had some good parts and deals with issues we face as parents and are obviously more complicated when fostering/ adoption is involved. I just couldn’t connect with the characters and found the book easy to predict that I was just trying to get through it. I’ve read others by this author I’ve enjoyed this one just didn’t do it for me. Too drawn out and nothing relatable to keep me invested. Thank you Nethalley for the advice copy.

Finished this the other day. I don't like giving bad reviews. But this one just didn't have it in for me. Was predictable and had a hard time getting into it.
Wasn't for me, however I hope others do like it.

Thanks to the publisher and Net Galley for an early release of this book.

I loved the synopsis of this book and I was looking forward to reading it but I was disappointed.
I am not a fan of leaving a negative review but I have to be honest.

Another Woman’s Child is the story of Patrick and Jo, they have a teenage daughter, Phoebe, whom Jo feels is going off the rails.
Then Jo’s best friend Ginny loses her battle to breast cancer. Before she dies Jo agrees that her teenage son Victor could come and live with them as he had never known or met his Dad.

I had figured out the “twist” by chapter 2 and so when it happened two thirds in to the book it wasn’t a big revelation.
The book covers racism, teenage dramas and drug addiction but I still felt like nothing really happens.
There wasn’t any rush to finish the book to find out what happens or telling myself I needed to read “Just one more chapter” before bed so I was left disappointed.

Thank you to the Author, Publisher and NetGalley for gifting me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.