Hold my girl : a novel / Charlene Carr.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443468336 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 420 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Canadian edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes discussion questions. |
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| Subject: | African American women > Fiction. Custody of children > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Fertilization in vitro, Human > Fiction. Infertility > Fiction. Women > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Carr | 31681010308062 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
- HARPERCOLL
For fans of Jodi Picoult, Kate Hewitt and Ashley Audrain, a heart-wrenching novel about two women whose eggs are switched during IVF Â
Katherine is a woman full of obsessions. Everything clean, everything perfect, all the time. After seven years of tryingâand failingâto conceive, she finally gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child. But sheâs afraid that Rose may not be her daughter; her pale skin doesnât match Katherineâs own.Â
Tess never got her happy ending. She took on IVF alongside Katherine and a group of hopeful mothers, but her daughter, Hanna, was stillborn. After a series of poor choices, sheâs divorced, broke and stuck in a job thatâs below her skill set.Â
Ten months later, Katherine and Tess get a call from the fertility clinic that reveals shocking news: the two womenâs eggs were switched. While Katherineâs perfect life beings to crumble around her, for Tess itâs the glimmer of hope she needs to get her life back on track. But it will take a custody battle to decide who deserves to be Roseâs mother, a battle that will push both women to the brink.
With themes of racial identity, loss and betrayal, this emotional novel centred around a difficult moral question beautifully explores the complexities of motherhood.Â