Book For Review Courtesy of NetGalley / Little A
Life is made up of many mundane things - cooking dinner, picking up dry cleaning, making cocktail party conversation. Jayne Donoghue does all of those as the wife of a journalist but has no identity outside of wife. When her wayward sister Bunny shows up with 2 kids and is about to have a third, Jayne throws herself into defacto motherhood - a little too much, as Bunny leaves her kids with Jayne and splits to live her hippie life. Jayne eventually has 2 children of her own and a family forms. Life goes on messily but fairly peacefully until Bunny reappears and decides she's ready to be a mother. Jayne's reaction and resulting decision blows up her family. Nicola Kraus' novel The Best We Could Hope For is a novel about wrong choices and their consequences, how one spiteful thing can create new paths within life. But these paths can lead to new places and newer and better versions of ourselves.
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