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Also by Lola Jaye:

The Manual for Good Wives, February 2026
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The Manual for Good Wives, May 2025
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The Attic Child, September 2023
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The Attic Child, September 2022
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Being Lara, March 2012
Paperback / e-Book

BEING LARA
By: Lola Jaye

William Morrow & Co
March 2012
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Featuring: Lara
324 pages
ISBN: 0062069349
EAN: 9780062069344
Kindle: B005WJ25SY
Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction

What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word "adopted." Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake—a woman in a blue-and-black head tie who also claims the title "Lara’s mother."

Lara, always in control, now finds her life slipping free of the stranglehold she's had on it. Unexpected, dangerously unfamiliar emotions are turning Lara's life upside down, pulling her between Nigeria and London, forcing her to confront the truth about her past. But if she's brave enough to embrace the lives of her two mothers, she may discover once and for all what it truly means to be Lara.