Heart of the Matter
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Emily Giffin
"Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives."--Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionTessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother's warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie--a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance--and even to some degree, friendships--believing that it is always safer not to expect too much.Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined. In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin's Heart of the Matter creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.
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Author
Emily Giffin
Pages
384
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2010-05-11
ISBN
1429926538 9781429926539
Ratings
Google: 3.5
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"Read this book on and off, couldn’t continually read this without getting distracted.<br/><br/>For me, this book wasn’t very enlightening, it’s basically a bunch of conference talks compiled together from the prophet.<br/>The only parts I found mildly interesting/entertaining were when he actually talked about some of his experiences in his medical career.<br/>But of course he doesn’t go completely into detail about his life or specifically why he does what he does in order to ‘live to a hundred years old’ and goes off topic to preaching the gospel… I wish it was a little more personal but I understand people like their privacy.<br/><br/>"
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"Mother's son has burning accident and needs surgery, she starts having feelings for the surgeon even though he's married and has two kids. Story of her having to deal with it and the surgeons wife, since she finds out."
Aritz Banuelos
"I bought this book ages ago and decided to read it again after an unhaul.<br/><br/>Well...<br/>I find it really hard to enjoy a book when the characters are insufferable.<br/>Nick comes off as judgemental and Valerie with no backbone for the most part. <br/>I literally groaned when I saw the main conflict coming<br/>The one saving grace where I would've given 2 stars unfortunately was taken from me in the last couple pages.<br/><br/>In short, if you don't enjoy infidelity don't read this.<br/>I normally enjoy Giffin;s novels so this really disappointed me."
Carli the bookworm
"Love all her books!"
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Rachel Fontaine
"Good, easy read! Loved how the author wrote from two different perspectives. "
Stacy Riddlebarger
"Loved this book from the first page, I couldn’t put it down. 5/5⭐️"
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Vanessa Cardillo
"My least favorite of Emily Giffin's books"
Elysa
"Hated the ending.<br/>"
Shaylee Brown
"Pure fluff. But I was not feeling well the last few days, so it worked for me. Although she writes easy-to-read books, she develops characters so well - you really get a sense of who they are and what their worlds are like. Fun to read."
Karen Ryan