Rae needs our book help! Ohhhh tons of amazing detail and I LOVE the sound of this one. Super-angsty sounding, full of turmoil, and growth. I’m so curious!! I want to read it.
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Hi!
I read this about 2 years ago, but it might have been published before this.
This takes place in the US, (I think New England?) H and h are divorced and have a teenage daughter, of whom the H has custody. h had undiagnosed (at the time) mental health issues and abandoned the family when daughter was a baby.
h has had a rough time, H and h have not had contact with each other for many years. There’s been a few times over the years when the h has sought visitation but her mental health has always been used against her. There are references to her going to court and the stepmother being there. She has sought and found help, is on medication, and lives in another town away from the H and her daughter. She is a teaching assistant (I think).
H is an academic and remarried a most “perfect” woman (elementary school teacher) and they have a baby. H’s and h’s daughter loves her stepmother.
Story begins when an enraged father storms the classroom and throws down the wife, whose head splits open and she dies!
I don’t recall any other introduction that is so startling.
The H is struggling with child care and lecturing and somehow after the h calls him to offer condolences, it works out that she comes to help him.
Her daughter is very antagonistic towards her and nothing the h explains sways her as she loved her step-mother dearly and wants no part of the h.
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Of course, during the course of events the H and h fall back in love, the h has a position at the local elementary school and the daughter is NOT Having IT! She somehow persuades her mother to stop taking her medication and of course the predictable outcome ensues, She has a breakdown, at school, and all hell breaks loose.
I can’t recall, but I think she leaves the H but he and the daughter go after her, and all’s well that ends well.
Anyone have a guess?
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I would love to read this book!