I Couldnt Love You More, Jillian Medoff
I Couldnt Love You More, Jillian Medoff
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I Couldn't Love You More

Author: Jillian Medoff

Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti

Unabridged: 15 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2018

Synopsis

In this heartwrenching novel, a woman must come to terms with a decision no parent should ever have to make: which child can she save? 

Eliot Gordon would do anything for her family. A 38-year-old working mother, she lives an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney, and their three daughters. The two older girls are actually Eliot's stepdaughters, a distinction she is reluctant to make as she valiantly attempts to maintain a safe, happy household . . .

Then Finn Montgomery, Eliot's long-lost first love, appears, triggering a shocking chain of events that culminates in a split-second decision that will haunt her beloved family forever. How Eliot survives -- and what she loses in the process -- is a story that will resonate with anyone who has ever loved a child.

With hilarious honesty, emotional depth, and a knockout twist, I Couldn't Love You More illuminates the unbreakable bonds of family and reveals the lengths people will go to save one another, even if we can't save ourselves.

About Jillian Medoff

Jillian Medoff is the author of the national bestseller I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE, as well as the novels GOOD GIRLS GONE BAD and HUNGER POINT. A former fellow at MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA, and Fundación Valparaiso, she has an MFA from NYU. In addition to writing fiction, Jillian has a long career in management consulting and is currently a Senior Consultant at the Segal Group, where she advises clients on all aspects of the employee experience.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Keith on March 25, 2012

A brave, honest and powerful novel--one I will never forget. The book is about a woman forced to decide which of her childrens' lives she will save. (It happens half-way through so it's not a spoiler.) I stayed up late reading because I had to find out what happens--now that I know, I'm rereading al......more

Goodreads review by Laura Kay on May 29, 2012

[URL not allowed] Eliot Gordon is a working mother with three daughters and a husband, ok well not a husband legally but figuratively and two of the girls are really step daughters. This is her life, her family and she loves it just the way it is. She also has her mother, two s......more

Goodreads review by Cristine on March 09, 2017

I enjoyed the storyline and the drama and the characters were well done and the writing itself superb. However, I just couldn't warm up to the main character. She was pathetic and taken for granted. She ended up doing all (or so it appeared) of the work of raising 3 daughters (2 of them weren't even......more

Goodreads review by Mary on June 25, 2015

Thirty-eight-year-old Eliot Gordon is a working mother who lives a conventional yet, for her, fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta. She would do absolutely anything for her family - her longtime partner, Grant Delaney, and their three lovely daughters: fourteen-year-old Charlotte, seven-year-old Gail......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 17, 2012

3.5 stars. I was thoroughly engrossed in this book. Eliot is a mother to a four year old little girl and stepmother (sort of) to two older girls. This is a very female-heavy book. In addition to the three daughters there are also three sisters (including Eliot), various friends, an ex-wife, and the......more

Quotes

"Four stars. Dazzling...hilarious and heart-wrenching."—People

"A daringly sympathetic portrait of a stepmother forced to make an impossible choice."—Vanity Fair

"Fun, smart and warmhearted..."—O Magazine

"Medoff's talent for characterization is evident in her latest novel, a richly layered tale about that complicated thing called family...[Her] fully realized novel beautifully explores the most important relationships we create: as parent, as sibling, as spouse."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Medoff produces another fallible, witty, realistic heroine with whom readers will identify. Eliot's biased and evolving narration brings the characters to life in this gripping story of personal growth. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, Medoff's honest writing and realistic dialogue make the book truly enjoyable, while a Sophie's Choice moment and its repercussions make it a real page-turner."—Booklist

"Every woman has one: the guy who got away. So what happens when he walks into your life again? If you were happy before-can you still make that claim? The choices we make-and the ones we don't make-form the backbone of Jillian Medoff's wonderful novel. These are characters you know, or might even have been, and their trials and tribulations are by turn devastating, hilarious, and painfully familiar."—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Sing You Home and House Rules

"I Couldn't Love You More might look like fluffy summer fun-- and it is fun, witty, and big-hearted-- but it is also a thoughtful examination of the choices we make and the devastating prices we pay."—Jennifer Weiner, New York Times bestselling author of The Next Best Thing

"I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE is a sheer pleasure to read. Boasting clear, beautiful writing and characters who could be people I know (and love), it's a gripping story that doesn't let up. But more than that, Medoff is that rare thing, a novelist brave enough to unleash the complex, strong emotions of which literature is made."—Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man and The Astral

"The incredibly talented Jillian Medoff is one of those authors whose storytelling is so honest it feels more like truth than like fiction. Funny, wrenching, suspenseful, and smart, I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE is one of those books that stays with you long after you've finished the last page."—Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family

"How well Jillian Medoff writes about love - familial and romantic - and how deftly she brings her heroine, Eliot, to an almost unbearably suspenseful climax. A deeply satisfying novel."—Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy and The House on Fortune Street

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