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Pub Date Mar 04 2025 | Archive Date Feb 03 2025

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Description

Grace had it all, but couldn't hold it all… A story of love, chaos and the music in-between, perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Twenty years ago, Grace wanted nothing more than to be with Trent – a boy with a guitar and a lot of promises. Twenty years ago, Dorothy wanted nothing more than for her daughter to fulfil her potential.

In a moment of heartbreak and fury, Grace makes a split-second decision to board a plane to London and put an ocean between them. There, Grace takes a job answering calls for a wannabe music mogul and sends her life on a dazzling trajectory, resulting in an illustrious career managing a megastar, large houses in glamorous places, two children (one who might be a sociopath but the other seems fine) and marriage to Ed. Ed who would do anything for her … except move back in.

Now, Grace is dragging her kids and a particularly irritating dachshund to her childhood home, where Dorothy is waiting with a roast and inevitable questions about where it all went wrong. On a McDonald's pitstop, among fractious kids and a runaway dog, she bumps into a ghost from the past … Trent.

Claire Zorn perfectly encapsulates the pitfalls of fledgling adulthood and the 'what ifs' of later life. She explores how the demands of being an adult – career, marriage, motherhood – can chip away at who we are, and she accomplishes it with writing that is compassionate, creative, funny and thought-provoking.

Grace had it all, but couldn't hold it all… A story of love, chaos and the music in-between, perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Twenty years ago, Grace wanted nothing more than to be with...


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ISBN 9781922928078
PRICE A$34.99 (AUD)
PAGES 416

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I was given a d-ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This book is what I've been waiting for. A good story well told.
Told in two parts one starting from Grace being at university and one from 'now' (2022) so we know where it is going the whole time, and it's all about the journey. Which is sometimes unexpected, but never twisty. It's just a delightful story about family and love and doing the best you can. There is a little bit of mental health stuff as well, but this isn't a book that sets out with an agenda. it's aim seems to be to tell Grace's story, and that it does.

And the ending! I'm not going to give anything away, but I will say that I thought it was perfect, other's may not. Read it and see.

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