The New Person

Name: The New Person
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Loretta Nyhan
ISBN: 9781799789628

Author: Loretta Nyhan

Narrator: Amy McFadden, Christina Traister, Stephen Borne

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/29/2022

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women

Synopsis

A sweet and hopeful novel about loss, connection, and the many ways to make a family from the bestselling author of The Other Family.Single mother Roxy Novak works days at a dentist’s office and delivers food at night, making the best life she can for herself and her son, Aero. When her wealthy ex-husband decides to ask for full custody, telling her Aero will be better off living with him and his Instagram-famous new wife, Roxy is stunned and scared. How can she possibly get the money to fight back?Meanwhile, Nora and Owen Finnegan have been trying to have a child for years without success. After their latest surrogate suffers a miscarriage, they start the search again—and find Roxy, who sees a chance to salvage her own dreams of family by fulfilling theirs.But family is never simple, and neither are dreams. Nora, Owen, and Roxy hope that their surrogacy journey will lead them to what they want most in the world. All three will get more than they expected.

About Loretta Nyhan

Loretta Nyhan was a reader before she was a writer, devouring everything she could get her hands on, including the backs of cereal boxes and the instruction booklet for building the Barbie Dreamhouse. Later, her obsession evolved into an absolute need to write, and after college, she wrote for national trade magazines, taught writing to college freshmen, and eventually found the guts to try fiction. Nyhan has cowritten two historical novels with Suzanne Hayes, Empire Girls and the Kirkus-starred Home Front Girls. Her solo work includes The Other Family, Digging In, and All the Good Parts. When she’s not writing, Nyhan is knitting, baking, and doing all kinds of things her high school self would have found hilarious. Find her online at www.lorettanyhan.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shelley's Book Nook on September 30, 2022

My Reviews Can Also Be Found On:My Blog - Twitter - Amazon- The Book Review Crew It’s nine months. A short time to give a pretty stressed-out couple a lifetime of happiness. This book surprised me in the best way. It was a lovely story about making a family and finding some connections along......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on October 25, 2022

Follow your Aero. Roxy is about to turn 30 and feeling down in the dumps about where she is in life. She has a good job at a dental office but she knows she could be more. She had a child young and it’s delayed her career but she wouldn’t trade Aero(named after Aerosmith lol) for the world. So speakin......more

Goodreads review by Amy on September 08, 2022

Description: A sweet and hopeful novel about loss, connection, and the many ways to make a family from the bestselling author of The Other Family. Single mother Roxy Novak works days at a dentist’s office and delivers food at night, making the best life she can for herself and her son, Aero. When her......more

Goodreads review by Leslie D. on December 15, 2022

This is a really cute novel about fighting for (a) child in several ways. Between trying to conceive, custody battles, and three families, very different personalities/lifestyles, there is nigh a boring moment. I don’t want to spoil anything here, but I will say I found this to be a touching, intere......more

Quotes

“Told from alternating points of view, Nyhan’s fifth novel thoroughly charms, thanks to a lovable, late-blooming heroine who deserves a break. Readers will stay with her, hoping she gets one.” —Booklist