Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild

Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thank you to St. Martin's Press (via NetGalley) for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!
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Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works one hundred hours a week. Yet Honor’s longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it―until a shocking event changes their lives forever.

Years later, Tom makes a decision that ripples through their families' lives in ways he could never have foreseen. As the consequences of that fateful choice unfold, two women's paths become irrevocably intertwined. But when old love clashes with new, who will be left standing? And what happens when your secrets come back to haunt you?

Blending a page-turning moral dilemma with satisfying emotional poignancy, Finding Grace is a sweeping love story that explores the price of a new beginning, how the ghosts of our past shape our future, and whether redemption can be found in the wreckage of what we've lost.
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The first chapter of this book grabbed me like few other books have in recent memory. It was that good. And the rest of the book was...also good but maybe didn't quite live up to the promise of that first chapter. The premise was unlike anything I had really read before, and I enjoyed many elements of this story, making this a solid four-star read for me. However, there was one main character whom I really found it difficult to root for, and this kind of marred the reading experience for me. Still, there was enough action to keep me turning the pages, and there was a sweet redemptive arc in there that was the kind of thing I love to see in well-written women's fiction. This was a debut novel that hints at a promising new voice in women's fiction, and I look forward to reading what Rothschild brings us in the future.

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