How does a woman, who has just given birth to a beautiful
baby boy, calmly
dress herself and walk away from the hospital? Not only
that, how does she
leave her husband of seventeen years and her thirteen year
old daughter
behind? You are going to have to read LEAVING HAVEN to find
out and let
me tell you, you won't believe it. You will be like me,
flipping the pages like
a crazed person trying to understand what Georgia was
thinking and why
she did what she did.
Georgia and Alice have been best friends for so many years
that their lives
seem irreversibly entwined. They are more like sisters, and
their families
are bound together as well. Their daughters, Liza and Wren
have been in
each others' lives since birth. So when Georgia's attempts
to have another
baby meet with severe challenges, like a series of
miscarriages and failed
IVF efforts, it seems only natural that Alice would offer to
donate one of her
eggs. At first, Georgia doesn't know what to think. Alice
and Georgia do
sort of look alike. Would the baby look like Georgia? Would
she feel a
connection to a baby made with Alice's egg more than she
would to a
stranger's egg? Read LEAVING HAVEN to find out! You won't
believe what
happens.
While reading LEAVING HAVEN, you are given both Georgia and
Alice's
perspective--which really allows readers, to relate to both
women
and this makes things easier to follow. Their story is
told in the past and
the present. Obviously, there is a huge reveal in LEAVING
HAVEN that I do
not want to spoil for you, so I'm trying to go around it.
Both are mothers to
now teenage girls. I like both Georgia and Alice, each had
their flaws but
doesn't everyone? As a mother, it's easy for me to say,
"How could you
leave your baby?" But there are so many mitigating
circumstances, I am
not sure what I would have done if I were in Georgia's
place.
The chapters alternate between Alice and Georgia, as well as
going back in time,
as we learn the story behind Georgia's disappearance. Alice
and Georgia
have two very different personalities. Alice describes
Georgia as " open,
honest, direct." She was "the quintessential earth mother,
with her rambling
old Victorian house and the bright colored skirts she wore
(which she
sewed herself) and her tendency to call everyone "darling"
or "sweetie".
She even bakes cakes for a living, a nurturing profession.
Georgia lost her mom when she was twelve and became a mother
figure to
her younger sisters Polly and Chessy. Polly is mom to four
youngsters and
Chessy is the youngest, still trying to find herself, and
the relationship
among the sisters was described perfectly. Alice was,
according to
Georgia, "all the things that Georgia wasn't- confident,
organized, practical.
Georgia felt reassured by Alice's steadiness, her
unflappable common-
sense approach to everything." Alice taught economics part-
time at a local
college, matching her personality.
LEAVING HAVEN is about families and friendships that take a
really wrong
turn! Who will be left with Haven, the baby that is left at
the hospital at the
beginning of LEAVING HAVEN? The baby so desired that it may
destroy
two families forever? LEAVING HAVEN is going to pull you in
right away
and will not let you go once you start reading. LEAVING
HAVEN is so well
written, that even though it jumps back and forth between
the present and
the past, it is very easy to follow. I know these
characters and their story is
going to stay with me for a very long time. I look forward
to reading more
by Kathleen McCleary.
Georgia Bing and Alice Kinnaird have always been there for
each other. Eager to help her best friend have another baby
after several miscarriages, Alice donates one of her eggs.
When Georgia learns she's going to have the baby boy she's
always wanted, she's thrilled—until a devastating discovery
destroys her dreams.
While Alice is happy to help her friend get pregnant, she
also feels a twinge of disappointment that her own life is
missing something . . . something she desperately craves. On
the surface, Alice has everything—a busy social life, a
great job, a faithful husband, an amazing teenage daughter.
But her well-ordered world is knocked off its axis when
she's tempted by a forbidden passion that threatens the
bonds of friendship, marriage, and motherhood that sustain
her.
As the safety of their past is shattered, Georgia and Alice
must embark on journeys of self-discovery—odysseys filled
with surprising challenges that will test them and force
them to confront the truth about their lives . . . and the
choices they've made.
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