Tia, Juliette, and Caroline have something in common: a child named Savannah. Twenty-four-year old Tia, born on the wrong side of the tracks in South Boston, finds herself pregnant after an affair with Juliette's husband, Nathan. She is devastated to realize that Nathan has no intention of breaking up his picture perfect upper class family to start a life with her. Tia and Nathan's daughter is adopted by physician Caroline, awkward and non-maternal, and her exuberant, family-loving husband Peter. As Caroline struggles to be a mother to Savannah, Tia lives for the annual pictures that Caroline and Peter provide each year as part of the open-adoption agreement. Although she knows that she made the right decision in giving up her child, she still harbors dreams deep in her heart of reuniting her family. One day she decides to send pictures of Savannah to Nathan, whom she has not seen since her early pregnancy, in hopes that he will contact her. Nathan's wife Juliette, who owns a successful cosmetics company, intercepts the letter and discovers the truth about the child of whose existence she had been blissfully ignorant.
Meyers has created a multi-layered tale of conflicting emotions. Tia is torn between love and longing for her daughter and the knowledge that she could never provide her the life that her adoptive parents can. Juliette struggles with the need to preserve her marriage and family and her intense hurt at Nathan's betrayals and lack of interest in his daughter, coupled with a desire to integrate Savannah into her own family. Caroline questions her maternal instincts and ability to connect emotionally with her daughter and please her husband while secretly wishing she could hide at work and never come home. This absorbing story of family dynamics and parental love will please fans of women's fiction.
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