Let Her Go

Let her go by Dawn Barker.
Zoe and her husband Lachlan have been trying to get pregnant for years. She has had 3 miscarriages and have been told she cannot have a baby. Her sister Nadia offers to surrogate for her and gives her a girl. But can she give her up and let Zoe have her?
This was a moving and emotional read with brilliant characters. I cannot begin to understand what the family went through. Bought tears to my eyes. 5*. Highly recommended. Netgalley and canelo.

I would like to thank Dawn Barker, Canelo and Netgalley for giving me this book for my honest review.

Review By Stephanie

Could you share your child with someone else….. That is the line in the description that got me!

Zoe and her husband spent many years struggling to have children. Then one day her step sister Nadia offers to be Zoe’s surrogate, and Zoe accepts the offer and they all have a baby girl Louise. Everything should be all amazing with in this family but no one expected how hard it would to have someone else be the mother of your child.

Then years later Louise needs her family’s help, but will everyone be able to put their emotions aside to help Louise.

This book was amazing! I was unable to put it down! They story line was unlike no other, you will feel one way one minute and then a completely different way another. I can not wait to read more from Dawn Baker!

Let Her Go pulled me in quickly and had me invested in the lives of the characters right from the start. My heart broke for what all 4 of the main characters experienced in this book. Many times people do the right things for all the right reasons and things still turn out wrong, which is what happened here.

Louise, the one truly innocent soul in all of this was the one that I felt suffered the most. I liked Louise quite a bit and could put myself in her shoes.

This is definitely a good read and is recommended for anyone that likes family dramas or books where strong women drive the story. I will definitely keep an eye on this author in the future so that I can read more of her work.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and Ms. Barker for allowing me an early copy.

Let Her Go was a great book.
Zoe and her husband Lachlan are unable to have a baby naturally so her sister Nadia offers to be a surrogate for them. She delivers a baby girl Louise so everything should now run smoothly.......
Have a read you won't be disappointed.
5 stars from me.

A really emotional read. Stepsisters Nadia and Zoe are leading different lives. Both happily married however, Nadia had three children and tells her woes of how hard it is and how tired she is. Zoe is resentful as she is desperate to be a mother but has had three miscarriages and it is not going to happen. Despite deep reservations from the two husbands Nadia offers to be a surrogate for Zoe. The baby is then biologically Nadia's and Zoe's husbands Lachlan. The baby is born and much loved by both families. Zoe feels she has to be eternally grateful to Nadia and Nadia is having major regrets. Then there is baby Louise in the middle of the turmoil. A really heart wrenching story with likeable characters and a real dilemma of who should have baby Louise. A story of love, loss, heartbreak and a mental breakdown. I loved this book and look forward to more from this author.

Fab story with parts that brought me to tears. The story was wrote so you saw both biological mother and mother. Written so well it could easily have been a memoir. This is the first book by this author I have read but will not be the last

Excellent and emotional book, great read couldnt put it down. I would highly recommend this book do not miss out

This book is a riveting piece of fiction that will keep the reader engrossed from the first page!

Believable characters and an emotional story. Well worth a read

A thought provoking book. As a close family, there seemed an obvious solution to the sad problem of infertility. But the emotions become entangled and sometimes despite deciding the way forward, you cannot separate those close bonds. This is a book that made me question whether the right thing to do is actually the right thing - should heart ever rule over head? As for the child - do the teenage problems she encountered have anything at all do to with her upbringing? Would she have turned out differently? This book asked more questions than it answered and was a well written and emotional read. Recommended.
Thank you to the publisher, author and NetGalley for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed reading Let Her Go, such a fab read that I would definitely recommend, great cover, if I saw this on the shelves I was definitely pick it up.

Wow, this was a very difficult reads for me. As a mum you feel deeply all the changing emotions dealt with in the book, sometimes feeling so sad, sometimes frustrated or even angry. The subject was uncomfortable but interesting as it's rarely covered or dealt with. Not everything can be perfect and nobody is perfect. I feel a bit battered and bruised finishing this but appreciate the good writing and story telling. Would recommend to friends and would be ideal for a book club.

This was a tough read for me, knowing it was about infertility and surrogacy but I wanted to know just how Nadia and Zoe cope with this momentous decision they've both made and how both sides of the story were portrayed.

Zoe has Lupus, a disease that means that a lot of sufferers cannot have children. Step forward Nadia, Zoe's step-sister who already has 3 children of her own but is willing to be a surrogate for Zoe so she can have the child she so desperately wants. At first, things to go to plan but Nadia soon realizes that giving up Louise is not what she wants and starts trying to find ways to get her back. Zoe is fully aware of how Nadia feels but she's dealing with a disintegrating marriage and her husband Lachlan won't talk to her. When things come to a head Nadia decides that the baby is no longer safe with Zoe and Lachlan and takes them to court to try and get custody.

The story of Zoe, Lachlan, Louise, and Nadia jumps back and forth between two different time periods, with Lou as a baby and then as a struggling teenager. While I was drawn to Louise and felt such sorrow at what she was going through I found it hard to like either Zoe or Nadia. They were quite unlikeable characters a lot of the time, unable to have an adult conversation about the situation and instead choosing to run away from what had to be the most difficult thing in their lives.

Let Her Go is just that, the story of letting someone go. Whether it's the right thing to do or not and what the effect of that decision can have on a family for the rest of their lives. It's powerfully written, at times heartbreaking and an incredibly emotional story but what I liked best was the depiction of Zoe's illness. It wasn't just mentioned once, at the start of the story as a plot device and forgotten about. It was mentioned consistently throughout the story and how it affected Zoe and her way of thinking, the desperation she felt of becoming seriously ill again and the possibility of Louise being taken away from her.

If you enjoy stories about family, how major choices can affect family members and people trying to find their way back to each other then do read Let Her Go.

Quite a complex book more about the families than the child. Yes l enjoyed it as it was a Subject l knew little about and it was sad that the child was affected by that one decision but l would question if this would have prompted such behaviour or if that was just the way things are sometimes - so as you can tell a very thought provoking book

Realistic characters, good storyline. Very thought-provoking. Well written,.

Zoe and Nadia are stepsisters who embark upon the journey of surrogacy. Zoe cannot have children because of a medical issue and Nadia offers to be a surrogate for her. This story deals with the emotions on both sides. I really liked the story of the sisters and how their relationship is. Louise, the child Nadia carried for Zoe, was another story. It like the author was really trying to make the reader dislike her. I know teenagers can be difficult, but I wanted to reach into the book and shake her. But, maybe the author wanted that tension in the story. This was an emotional read, but a good one.

I really enjoyed this book speaking from a personal perspective I know how awful it is to want a child desperately and feel that longing, jealousy, bitterness. It's beautifully written and well thought out and I really connected with the characters. I couldn't put it down and raced through it I'd definitely recommend it

This is a sad but very good read,it's about a couple that's had 3 miscarriage,and been told they can't have any more,Andhra sister said she will have a baby for them, good read but you may get upset.

A moving and emotional read with brilliant characters. I enjoyed this book and would consider reading more from this author in the future.

Let Her Go opens with Zoe and her husband Lachlan facing infertility. Their only options are adoption or surrogacy. Zoe's health means that she will never carry her own baby successfully. Her sister Nadia has a solution but the repercussions from the agreement they make will have far reaching consequences in the lives of both women and their families.
This is a quick read, I finished it in one sitting on a quiet afternoon and I found the book compelling. The characters are well developed and both Zoe and Nadia are sympathetic at times, but unlikable at others. Both women share a quiet desperation at different times in the novel and it's impossible to see how they can ever reconcile their own desires with that of their sister. The storyline has three strands and the latest of the three is especially cleverly written and will keep the reader guessing until a defining paragraph close to the story's denouement. This means that there isn't a twist as such, but the reader is left questioning the events and what has happened in the intervening period between the two story strands.
Fans of books by the likes of Jodi Picoult will enjoy this novel. The tensions of a family divided are well portrayed, especially in the female characters, and the story is tightly plotted and fast moving. I was gripped and thoroughly enjoyed it.

A moving story of surrogacy within a family and the emotional backlash that comes from such a big decision. The story will keep you guessing the outcome and pulls at your heart at times.