Hold My Girl

De: Charlene Carr

Narrado por: Kate Handford

Two women. Two eggs. One life-changing switch.

Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her entire life striving for perfection—obsessing over her spotless home, maintaining her pristine reputation, building her perfect family—and her hard work has finally paid off. After seven difficult years of trying (and failing) to conceive, Katherine gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child, and at last has the one thing she's wanted most of all. But one thing isn't quite perfect. Rose's pale skin doesn't match Katherine's complexion, and an irritating doubt begins to grow in Katherine's mind.

Tess never got the happy ending she wanted. She underwent IVF at the same clinic as Katherine, but after finally conceiving, Tess's daughter was stillborn. Now, nearly one year later, she's approaching rock bottom. Consumed by her grief and without hope for the future, Tess is divorced, broke, and stuck in a dead-end job beneath her skillset.

But shortly before Rose's first birthday, Katherine and Tess get a call from the fertility clinic: Their eggs were switched. As Katherine's carefully planned life begins to crumble around her, Tess finally sees the glimmer of hope she needed to get her life back on track. Motherhood has always been their dream, and neither woman is prepared to share that claim over Rose. It will take a tense custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose's mother, but it will also push them to the brink. With themes of racial identity, loss, and betrayal, Hold My Girl is an emotional novel that will leave you contemplating: What makes a mother?

©2023 Charlene Carr (P)2023 Recorded Books

hidden Gem

Way better than I expected. Definitely a plot twist. I hope there is a part 2

character development.

Great story, emotional rollercoaster. As a mother myself, it had me questioning how would I be if this happened to me. In the beginning I did question if I liked certain characters. The book did a great job of developing the characters overtime and making you empathetic to their issues over the course of the book. At first I felt they lacked in ways that made me question "why do I care " but definitely turned out better by the end.

The author story.

Love the amount of detail in the research done on this subject, How it would change in the current environment.

Interesting outcome

I truly enjoyed hold my girl by Charlene Carr. It kept my interest from start to finish, so many twist and turns, i didn’t see coming. A beautiful ending to the story.

Lovely writing

Suspenseful & heartwrenching. I enjoyed this story and how it sheds light on everyone as being flawed but still worthy.

Very slow

I waited months to read this book, only to be disappointed. The ending was rushed and didn't really give much closer for the characters. I was very disappointed that this book didn't have much substance. I kept waiting for the 'good part' but it never came.

This book stressed me out!

I guess is really all I have to say! i think the book could have been 100 pages less, because I still have so many unanswered questions. So I guess!