Finding Grace

A Novel

By: Loretta Rothschild

Length: 11 hrs

Publisher's summary

A twisty, gripping novel that wraps around a deeply moving love story, from an electric new voice in upmarket women’s fiction.

Honor seems to have everything: she adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works one hundred hours a week. Her bestselling children’s books mean that she’s made a name for herself doing what she loves. Yet Honor’s longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it—until a shocking tragedy changes their lives forever, and Tom is left to pick up the pieces.

Grace has made her London wine shop a second home for people like her—people who are running from their own pasts. Passionate, studious, and self-assured, she finds herself curious about Tom, who becomes a fixture at the shop.

As Grace falls for Tom, she shares things about herself that she’s never told anyone—while Tom is keeping a secret that could destroy their burgeoning romance. Through it all, the lasting impact of Honor’s obsessive want looms over them, as does the possibility that their meeting was no accident.

Can Tom and Grace wade through the secrets and selective omissions to find each other on the other side? Do we all have ghosts that refuse to stay buried? And how do old love and new love align? Blending a thrilling moral dilemma with satisfying emotional poignancy, Finding Grace is a sweeping love story that explores what happens when a shared past collides with an unexpected future.

©2025 Loretta Rothschild (P)2025 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"I can't remember the last time I read a book so wholly original that it also manages to feel like it's always existed. How is it not already a part of our zeitgeist, one of those watershed books people try to imitate for the next decade but never succeed in eclipsing? That enviable balance of blockbuster plot and literary elegance. Such a clever concept, such a whip smart voice, such perfectly rendered characters, all bound together by a theme as simple and utterly, relatably human as Finding Grace. An absolutely powerhouse debut that I will be thinking about for a good long while."—Julia Whelan, bestselling author of My Oxford Year and Thank You for Listening

"Loretta Rothschild’s debut novel has one of the best first chapter cliffhangers ever…and then it just keeps getting better. It’s inventive, tender, heartbreaking, redemptive—and it’s one of the best books I’ve read this year."—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Finding Grace feels like a movie, with characters and scenes that explode off the page and a propulsive plot that had me in a chokehold. I raced through this emotional story of love, grief, second chances, and moral ambiguity, laughing and weeping along the way."—Carola Lovering, bestselling author of Tell Me Lies