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Expectation a novel

✍ Scribed by Anna Hope


Publisher
Harper Perennial;HarperCollins
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Weight
179 KB
Edition
US
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


In this sharply observed novel set in and around London, three college friends, now in their thirties, must come to terms with the gap between the lives they imagined for themselves and realityin the face of marriage, fertility struggles, and loss.
In her first year of motherhood after an unplanned pregnancy, Cate is constantly exhausted, spiraling into self-doubt and postpartum anxiety. Her husband Sam seems oblivious, but maybe she'd prefer he remain in the dark. How can she admit the unthinkable --that she misses her freedom?

In contrast, Hannah continues to endure round after round of unsuccessful IVF treatments. The process is taking its toll on her physically and emotionally--and, she worries, creating distance between her and her husband Nathan. She is godmother to Cate's son, but every time they get together, it's a trigger.

Beautiful and unattached, Lissa is re-evaluating what it means to be...

✦ Subjects


Womens


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