by Jane Green
First published 2015
Cat built a glamorous life in London during her twenties. She had an excellent career and close friends. She also had a drinking problem that led to nightly parties, chaos, and memory blackouts. The discovery of her unknown father living in Nantucket threw her into emotional turmoil. Her reaction destroyed the family connection she had longed for her entire life. Alcohol had controlled Cat for years. Now she is in her late thirties, sober, and divorced from the man she loved most. She struggles to rebuild her relationship with her teenage daughter while trying to repair the damage she caused others. Cat decides to face the people she wronged and make direct amends. She must also confront a terrible act she committed during one summer night years ago. This reckoning with her past threatens to upend everything she has worked to rebuild in her recovery.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: redemption, second-chance
Setting: London, Nantucket
Period: late thirties
385 pages · Kindle Edition · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: addiction, alcohol-abuse, depression, mental-illness