Bestselling author Karma Brown is back with a morally infused and emotionally riveting exploration of one womanâs guilt over an unexpectedâyet avoidableâtragedy
Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days sheâs able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes.
After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the street...just as another car comes hurtling down the road and slams into him.
Meg canât help but blame herself for her role in this horrific disaster. Full of remorse, she throws herself into helping the boyâs family as he rehabs from his injuries. But the more Meg tries to absolve herself, the more she alienates her own familyâand the more she finds herself being drawn to the boyâs father.
Soon Megâs picture-perfect life is unravelling before her eyes. As the painful secrets sheâs been burying bubble dangerously close to the surface, she will have to decide: Can she forgive herself, or will she risk losing everything she holds dear to her heart?
KARMA BROWN is an award-winning journalist and author of the bestsellers Come Away with Me and The Choices We Make. In addition to her novels, Karmaâs writing has appeared in publications such as Redbook, SELF and Chatelaine. Karma lives just outside Toronto with her husband, daughter and their labradoodle, Fred. In This Moment is her most recent novel.
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In This Moment
Karma Brown
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018
Copyright © Karma Brown 2017
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Ebook Edition © January 2018 ISBN: 9781474083591
Praise for the novels of Karma Brown
âWe adored Come Away with Me and are ready for more of Brownâs powerful, heartfelt prose. Sheâs the female Nicholas Sparks.â
âRedbook
âBrown delivers an emotional punch in The Choices We Make. This is a good, old-fashioned tear-jerker of a book.â
âThe Toronto Star
âThe Choices We Make presents gut-wrenching questions about friendship and loyalty... Should appeal to readers who relish Nicholas Sparksâ sentimental stories combined with the kind of weighty issues often raised by Jodi Picoult.â
âNew York Journal of Books
âA warmly compelling love story [and] deeply moving debut.â
âBooklist
âA compelling premise with a plot that intensifies satisfyingly in the second half, this book is a good bet for readers who donât shy away from difficult moral questions.â
âKirkus Reviews
â[A] beautifully written story of love and loss... Come Away with Me had me smiling through my tears.â
âTracey Garvis Graves, New York Times bestselling author of On the Island
â[A] heartbreaking yet hopeful tale... Karma Brown is a talented new voice in womenâs fiction.â
âLori Nelson Spielman, #1 international bestselling author of The Life List
âLaughing one minute, then fiercely blinking back tears the next, we tore through this novelâso gripping that we were both excited and scared out of our minds to turn the page. Multilayered and completely consuming...[a] stunning page turner.â
âLiz Fenton and Lisa Steinke, authors of The Status of All Things
âOne womanâs journey through grief becomes the journey of a lifetime.â
âColleen Oakley, author of Before I Go
For Mom & Dadâyou told me I could do whatever I put my mind to.
You were right. xo
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.