Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Everything was fine fourteen years after she left New York.
Until suddenly, one day, it wasn t.
Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loved passionately, she was building the life she always wanted. But when enormous stress threatened her marriage, Emily made some rash decisions. That s when she fell in love with someone else. That s when she got pregnant.
Resolved to tell her husband of the affair and to leave him for the father of her child, Emily s plans are thwarted when the world is suddenly split open on 9/11. It s amid terrible tragedy that she finds her freedom, as she leaves New York City to start a new life. It s not easy, but Emily---now Connie Prynne forges a new happily-ever-after in California. But when a life-threatening diagnosis upends her life, she is forced to rethink her life for the good of her thirteen-year-old daughter.
A riveting debut in which a woman must confront her own past in order to secure the future of her daughter, Kim Hooper's People Who Knew Me asks: What would you do?
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