NEW RELEASE
Where We Belong - Emily Giffin (2012)
Marian Caldwell has the perfect life. She is an executive producer for a hit television show in New York and she has the perfect boyfriend in Peter. Everything is going great except she is ready to get married and have kids but Peter is questioning getting married again after he has just divorced. One night Marian opens her door to find 18-year-old Kirby who has always wondered who her real mother is. Marian had never told a soul that she had given her baby up for adoption when she was a teenager. So now both of them have to get to know one other, while Marian has to deal with telling everyone she has a child. This is a heart-wrenching story on adoption and decisions that have to be made at a young age. (CG)
Where We Belong, by Emily Giffin, is about a woman who has to face up to a past secret. The summary says: "Marian Caldwell is a 36-year-old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an 18-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian's perfectly constructed world - and her very identity - will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her. For the precocious and determined Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to re-evaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light. As the two women embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to recognise that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves - a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever." Where We Belong is out in July. You can read an excerpt at the author's website.