Regretting You - by Colleen Hoover (Paperback)

About the Book

"Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn't have a spontaneous bone in her body. With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris--Morgan's husband, Clara's father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara. While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she's been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together"--

Book Synopsis

The #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller that People Magazine calls "a poignant, addictive read."

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn't have a spontaneous bone in her body.

With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris--Morgan's husband, Clara's father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.

While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she's been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

Review Quotes

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

"There is plenty of trademark Hoover emotion and surprises in this engrossing read...This twisting novel will instigate excellent book discussions about regrets and second chances." --Booklist

"Betrayals, secrets, and shifting family loyalties keep the pages turning in this excellent contemporary from Hoover...This is Hoover at her very best." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The emotions run high, the conversations run deep, and the relationships ebb and flow with grace." --Kirkus Reviews

"A fantastically raw story about love, grief, and family." --HelloGiggles

"A book about grief, friendship, and mother-daughter relationships, it's at turns heartbreaking and ebullient." --MindBodyGreen

"Colleen Hoover's new novel delivers moments that are heartbreaking and heartfelt...a stirring mother-daughter story full of hope, loss, and great love." --Woman's World

"A poignant, addictive read." --People Magazine

"For Morgan and Clara, coming to terms with the past means letting go and moving forward, and mother and daughter eventually meet each other halfway. Regretting You is a powerful story of love, hope, and redemption--and a tour de force for the incredibly gifted Hoover." --Washington Independent Review of Books