num_pages: 368
description: Tessa 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 Charliea boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments she has given up on romanceand even to some degree friendshipsbelieving 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 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.
language: English
title: Heart of the Matter
publisher: St. Martin's Press