Hold My Girl Av Charlene Carr

Two women. Two eggs. One switch. It'll take a custody battle like no other to decide who really deserves to be the baby's mother - a battle that will push both women to the brink.

For fans of Celeste Ng, Liane Moriarty and Jodi Picoult, this tense and emotional novel follows the fallout after two women's eggs are switched during IVF. 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...'Thoughtful, tense and affecting' Ashley Audrain, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Push'Compelling and thought-provoking ... A page-turner' Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake'Intensely propulsive ... I was spellbound' Heather Marshall, #1 bestselling author of Looking For Jane'Each fresh twist had me shifting my sympathies' Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures'An absolute triumph ...I was riveted ... A must-read' USA Today bestselling author Julianne Maclean'A tense, captivating book that will set your heart racing and wrench it apart' Ronali Collings, author of Love and Other Dramas'A breathtaking, gut-wrencher of a page-turner' Washington Post and Kindle bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale'Holds nothing back ... Carr bares the soul of her characters in ways few writers can' Barbara Conrey, USA Today bestselling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye'So many twists and turns in such unexpected ways' Christy Ann Conlin, author of The Speed of Mercy'I've been waiting for a book like this ...I couldn't have loved it more' Joanne Gallant, author of A Womb in the Shape of a Heart'A future classic of fertility noir' Leah Hazard, Sunday Times bestselling author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story