About the Book
Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they’re happily married wives and mothers with successful careers–Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years.
As chief resident, Nick Xenokostas was the center of Zadie’s life–both professionally and personally–throughout a tragic chain of events during her third year of medical school that she has long since put behind her. Nick’s unexpected reappearance at a time of new professional crisis shocks both women into a deeper look at the difficult choices they made at the beginning of their careers. As it becomes evident that Emma must have known more than she revealed about circumstances that nearly derailed both their lives, Zadie starts to question everything she thought she knew about her closest friend.
My Review
What an impressive debut novel. Kimmery Martin takes her background as a doctor and her skill as a writer and combines the two to create a novel that is not only hard to put down, but hard to forget. Best friends Zadie and Emma both make incredibly strong characters to follow, and I thought it was great that we got their past, how their friendship was built, how they stayed so strong throughout the years, and then the buildup to their current situation. I was thoroughly engrossed the entire time, and really quite surprised as we got closer to the end. I really don’t want to say too much, but as a big fan and also writer of friendship fiction, Zadie and Emma’s bond really had me thinking as I closed this book. Highly recommend you add this to your reading list.
5 stars
