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The Favor

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The Favor

By: Adele Griffin
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
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From National Book Award finalist Adele Griffin, an insightful and warmhearted story of two very different women who make an unexpected connection when one decides to carry a baby for the other.

At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client.

At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own.

When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned into the heady whirl of New York's moneyed elite. As Evelyn's stylist and confidante, Nora needs to learn all new rules of engagement for the uber-wealthy. But it isn't until Evelyn decides her next cause is to carry a baby for Nora, that these rules―and this unlikely friendship―are tested.

A contemporary story that celebrates alternative routes to family, The Favor is an incisive examination of what it means to long for a child and what relationships cost us―and what they're worth.

©2023 Adele Griffin (P)2023 Spotify Audiobooks Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Women's Fiction New York Feel-Good
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Another well performed audiobook by Kristen Sieh (my favourite!). A well written, thoroughly enrapturing story on the pains, highs & lows (more lows than high) of surrogacy/IVF & parenthood but more importantly , it's about friendship - the different kinds of friendship. Nora and Jacob are wonderful characters - likeable, relatable and I just loved how their relationship was portrayed. It wasn't perfect but there was a real partnership, give/take from both of them which makes them very solid. I was also invested into the budding friendship of Nora & Evelyn. Two people from very different sides of society.
All this was elevated further by the excellent narrration from Kristen. Will look for more books by author.

Sensitive yet witty story on friendships, family

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