Book
Dear thing : [a novel] / Julie Cohen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250081506
- Physical Description: 421 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Subtitle from cover. First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press [2013], an imprint of Transworld Publishers, a Random House Group company -- Verso title page. |
| Summary, etc.: | After years of watching her best friends Ben and Claire try for a baby, Romily has offered to give them the one thing that they want most. Romily expects it will be easy to be a surrogate. She's already a single mother, and she has no desire for any more children. But Romily isn't prepared for the overwhelming feelings that have taken hold of her and which threaten to ruin her friendship with Ben and Claire-and even destroy their marriage. Now there are three friends, two mothers and only one baby, and an impossible decision to make... Thought-provoking, heart-rending but ultimately uplifting, Julie Cohen's Dear Thing is a book you won't be able to put down, until you pass it on to your best friends-- Provided by publisher. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Mothers > Fiction. Pregnancy > Fiction. Infertility > Fiction. Surrogate motherhood > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
BookList Review
Dear Thing
Booklist
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Ben and Claire have it all: perfect jobs, perfect house, perfect marriage. There's only one thing missing a baby. After years of trying to get pregnant and suffering through miscarriages and heartbreak, Claire is ready to give up and has come to terms with the fact that she will never have a child. That is, until Ben's friend Romily offers to be their surrogate. Romily doesn't think it will be a problem being a surrogate because, being a single mother, she's already been pregnant before. There's one big problem, though the fact that Romily has secretly been in love with Ben for years. Romily thinks she can disregard her feelings, but as her pregnancy progresses, her feelings begin to overwhelm her and threaten to ruin everything. Claire and Romily are two completely different women, but readers will want to reach out and hug them both. Cohen weaves a story of friendship, love, and betrayal, but ultimately, this is a story of what it means to be a mother.--Wathen, LynnDee Copyright 2016 Booklist
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