The Favor

A Novel

By: Adele Griffin

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

From National Book Award finalist Adele Griffin, an insightful and warmhearted story of two very different women who make an unexpected connection when one decides to carry a baby for the other.

At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client.

At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own.

When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned into the heady whirl of New York's moneyed elite. As Evelyn's stylist and confidante, Nora needs to learn all new rules of engagement for the uber-wealthy. But it isn't until Evelyn decides her next cause is to carry a baby for Nora, that these rules―and this unlikely friendship―are tested.

A contemporary story that celebrates alternative routes to family, The Favor is an incisive examination of what it means to long for a child and what relationships cost us―and what they're worth.

©2023 Adele Griffin (P)2023 Spotify Audiobooks

You will not put this down, wow

Nora works in a thrift shop where she spends her days selling vintage fashion to rich women. One day uber-confident Evelyn walks into her shop and turns Nora’s world upside-down. They become friends and Eleanor offers to carry Nora’s baby.

While Nora is the narrator we know right away that flighty wild Eleanor is maybe not the best person for this job. But Nora and her husband Jacob have struggled for years for a baby. They are so in debt Eleanor is their best hope.

Nora’s marriage is just one of the things that gets tested when she's ensnared in this complicated relationship to make her dream for a child come true. Some of the many themes explored in this book are friendship, infertility, surrogacy, motherhood, money, and power. I enjoyed this book because it actually kept me interested, the writing is smooth, and there’s some unexpected twists.

Love love love

This book was amazing. I loved everything about this book. I had a strong connection with the main character.

Great Characters and narration

Kept me interested right until the end. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and I won't say if it did or didn't. Definitely worth the read.