A Mother's Goodbye

By: Kate Hewitt

Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling

Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's Summary

You know you can’t keep your baby. But can you trust someone else with their life? 

When Heather finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she knows there is no way she can keep her baby. She can barely manage to stay afloat as it is. But how can she stop herself from loving the child as it grows inside her?

She thinks she’s found the perfect adoptive mother in Grace. Confident and wealthy, Grace has everything that Heather doesn’t. But when the heartbreaking moment arrives, will Heather be able to give up her baby? And if she can’t, what will this mean for Grace?

Two women’s lives are forever entwined by the love for the same child and by the agonizing choices they will both have to make. A Mother’s Choice will make listeners ask themselves what it truly means to be a parent and whether they could make an ultimately selfless decision when it comes to their child’s future.

A Mother’s Choice is a heartbreaking and compelling emotional drama with a tear-jerking twist - perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Kelly Rimmer, and Diane Chamberlain.  

Praise for Kate Hewitt:

"Pulled me in and never let me go...Hewitt writes about the complex emotions of family relationships with sensitivity and realism." (Marie Bostwick, The New York Times best-selling author) 

"Kate Hewitt writes with deep emotion and stunning prose." (Kathleen McGurl, author)

"Warm, wonderful, emotion storytelling." (Sarah Morgan, author)

"A lushly imagined, deeply moving story...stunning...the perfect book to lose yourself in." (Megan Crane, USA Today best-selling author) 

"Touches the heart and pulls the reader in." (RT Reviews)

"Quality women’s fiction...at its finest." (Fictionophile)

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so heart-wrenching

Taking Different sides all through the book, and all sides in the end . you won't be able to put it down

To close to home

A story that touches many parts of my own life! Infants, mothers and death are extremely hard realities to endure!

loved it, very heartfelt

loved how it was narrated and how you got to see both sides of adoption. .the letting go and the receiving end.

This book!

This book kicked my a**.. I had to sit in the parking lot for awhile because I was crying to much to go into the store. I am NOT a cryer! I thought I knew how this book was was going and I didn’t think I was going to like it . I loved it but it drained me emotionally. That being said.. highly recommended

Not what I expected

what I thought would be a book about adoption and the challenges and pain of this decision turned out to be so much more. I enjoyed the two sided view and storytelling.

What choice would you make?

my heart felt for both parties of this story. Grace & Heather eventually end up on similar paths to which both gain understanding. a mother's love will always put the child first in the end.

Absolutely beautiful

Loved every beautifully written and narrated word. One of my best reads - looking forward to my next Kate Hewitt book!

Very sad!

Good book but sadder than I thought it would be 😢would read more by Kate Hewitt

Not quite a success

I bought this because of suggestions it was a parallel for Jodi Picoult whom I love. It is not. Neither female lead is likeable enough and so the swing the author is hoping you will feel from one to the next in their experience of the situation becomes annoying rather than emotive. I won’t be pursuing this author

Slow start, didn’t get much better

Hard to get into as the start was so slow and tbh the story didn’t get much better although became a bit more interesting. Left hanging with one portion of the story at the end though which was annoying. Narrator accent heavy going.

Read this book

I have never left a review for any book I've read before, I am an avid reader though.
This book is truly extraordinary, I found myself tremendously involved with it, even when I wasn't listening to it I was thinking about it.
The characters, the family, were all too messily and emotionally believable and therefore the way things unfolded seemed astoundingly likely. Nothing jarred in this novel, not bad writing, unrealistic circumstances.
I wish it could have been set in England, but struggling families and babies and tragedy happen everywhere.

Brilliant

So sad. Having to give the baby away. But what unexpected twist at the end.

emotional

Easy enjoyable listen but you will need some tissues as it's definitely a tear jurker!

Very sad book

A well written but very emotional story. I enjoy the story even though it made me sad.