by Jane Green
First published 2009
Kit Hargrove wakes up in her clapboard Cape house with sea-green shutters, surrounded by sprawling impatiens. She has left behind the diamond studs and Persian rugs that marked her as a Wall Street widow. Now she lives in tony Highfield, Connecticut, where her children seem happy and her ex-husband remains cooperative. Kit loves her new job working as an assistant to blockbuster novelist Robert McClore. She believes she has built the perfect new life after divorce. A budding romance adds to her sense that everything has fallen into place. Then unexpected events shatter Kit's carefully constructed world. She discovers that her idyllic fresh start and her new romantic relationship contain flaws she never anticipated. Kit must confront the gap between the life she thought she was building and the reality of starting over.
Genres: domestic-fiction, contemporary, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Highfield, Connecticut, Wall Street
Period: 21st-century
341 pages · Hardcover · Viking