The nearness of you : a novel

Author

Amanda Eyre Ward

Call Number

• FICTION WARD (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Ballantine Books, [2017]

Physical Description

228 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. Suzette has always feared passing along the genes that led her mother to a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a different idea: a baby via surrogate. Dorrie is a young woman struggling to find the money to go to college. When she sees an advertisement to be a surrogate, she believes it's a sign that her destiny is to help a family have a baby and then realize her dreams. It's a perfect plan, but then she falls in love"--