A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself

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A People 10 Best Books of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • An Independent (UK) 20 Best Books of the Year Wise, bracingly honest...A reassuring reality check...Exhilarating. -New York Times Book Review A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice that will strike a resonant chord with parents everywhere, (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The FortunesA Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political decisions a family can make: to have a child, and conversely, to choose not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests-and questions that reverberate down the years. When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labor? When does chance become choice?...

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