Finding Grace

 

Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild

Fiction

2025

Finished on January 6, 2026

Rating: 4.5/5 (Very Good!)

Publisher's Blurb:

Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works one hundred hours a week. Yet Honor’s longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it―until a shocking event changes their lives forever.

Years later, Tom makes a decision that ripples through their families’ lives in ways he could never have foreseen. As the consequences of that fateful choice unfold, two women’s paths become irrevocably intertwined. But when old love clashes with new, who will be left standing? And what happens when your secrets come back to haunt you?

Blending a page-turning moral dilemma with satisfying emotional poignancy, Finding Grace is a sweeping love story that explores the price of a new beginning, how the ghosts of our past shape our future, and whether redemption can be found in the wreckage of what we’ve lost.

Finding Grace is not a mystery, nor a domestic thriller, but it reads with the propulsive, twisty feel of a page-turner and I couldn't put it down! My jaw dropped as I read the last paragraph of the first chapter. Gobsmacked! I couldn't imagine where Rothschild was going with the story, but she pulled me in and didn't let go until the final page was turned. In spite of a few plot holes, this is a very impressive debut novel! It's one that book groups will be talking about all year, and if it didn't land on readers' Best of 2025 lists, it's bound to in 2026. Loretta Rothschild is one to watch.

Highly recommend. (Go with the print edition - I hear the audio isn't a winner.)