Since November 2009Book Review: Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
Posted on Monday, November 8th, 2010 by Leah
Tessa Russo knows what it’s like to be married to someone always on call. Her husband Nick Russo is a leading pediatric surgeon and when a call comes in on the night of their anniversary, she knows it’s not his fault and has learned to live being married to a man dedicated to his job.
Valerie Anderson is a single mother who takes nothing for granted so when a phone-call comes in telling her that her son, Charlie, has been in an accident, her whole world collapses and she only begins to feel hope again when Nick Russo enters her life, telling her that he’s going to do his best to look after Charlie. However, something seems to shift - not only between Tessa and Nick but between Nick and Valerie. As all three of their lives and relationships are put to the test, can they all get the future they so desperately want?
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Vida is 19 and has never had much of a life. Struggling along with a life-threatening heart condition, her whole life has been one long preparation for death. But suddenly she is presented with a donor heart, and just in time. Now she gets to do something she never imagined she’d have to do: live.
Sienna Starr is grateful for what being the daughter of burlesque star Tyger Starr brings her, but also wants to break out on her own. She loves being a chorus girl in a dancing show, but is determined to be a star in her own right, and shine as the lead dancer. Unfortunately, Sienna seems to have made an enemy of the show’s leading lady Brandy Alexander, and she’s determined to make Sienna’s life hell, not wanting her to take any shine off Brandy herself. However, when someone from Brandy’s past shows up and threatens to wreck everything she has worked hard for, how far will Brandy go to protect herself? Will Sienna be able to reach her dreams of being a leading lady herself, and sort of her own personal demons with boyfriend Max too? When does too much ambition become a bad thing?
Charlotte Williams pretty much has it all. Her musician father’s success means that Charlotte wants for nothing, and she has a close group of friends who she enjoys going out with and having fun regularly. But when her father is arrested for a huge fraud case, Charlotte finds that her world has started to collapse around her. She’s got no money, no family and no one to look after her. She decides to flee to New Orleans and the home of her former Nanny, the only place she knows she will feel safe from the paparazzi. She begins to work for the first time in her life, and also reignites her own love for music and singing, but there is someone out there determined to make Charlotte pay for what her father has done to hundreds of people. Can Charlotte escape the madman before he gets to her?
