Hold My Girl : The 2023 book everyone is talking about, perfect for fans of Celeste Ng, Liane Moriarty and Jodi Picoult

'Thoughtful, tense and affecting' - Ashley Audrain, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Push TWO WOMEN. TWO EGGS. ONE SWITCH. Katherine is a woman full of obsessions. Everything clean, everything perfect, all of the time. After seven years of trying - and failing - to conceive, she finally gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child. But she's always feared Rose may not be her daughter, her pale skin not matching Katherine's own. 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 desperate choices, she's divorced, broke, and stuck in a job beneath her skillset. When Rose is ten months old, both women get a call from the fertility clinic - two women's eggs were switched. One woman has been raising the wrong daughter, while the other has spent a year grieving a child that wasn't hers. Katherine's perfect life begins to crumble around her, but for Tess it's the glimmer of hope she needs to get her life back on track. It'll take a custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose's mother, a battle that will push both women to the brink. ___________ 'Charlene Carr unflinchingly puts the reader into the broken hearts and spiralling minds of two mothers who are thrust into an unimaginable situation... An intensely propulsive pageturner. I was spellbound' Heather Marshall, #1 bestselling author of Looking For Jane 'Each fresh twist had me shifting my sympathies until the very end. Hold My Girl is a beautiful, unflinching examination of what it means to be a mother' Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures 'An absolute triumph of a novel... I was riveted from the first page and couldn't stop. It's an absolute must-read' USA Today bestselling author Julianne Maclean 'A tense, captivating book that will both set your heart racing and wrench it apart' Ronali Collings, author of Love and Other Dramas