'Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
This wasn't the usual style of Jodi Picoult, but I think it was one of her earlier books before she started writing in her current style. It was a good read. Paige only has a few memories of her own mother, as she left when she was only 5. She is young and has dreams of going to art school and leaves home to pursue her dreams. She meets and marries a doctor, Nicholas and soon becomes a mother herself. Finding it hard to adjust to this new and demanding way of life, with no help from Nicholas, she ups and leaves to try and find her mother and search for the answer to why she left her.
It deals with both sides of how they cope, Nicholas, left holding the baby as it were, while Paige has to deal with her own doubts about her maternal abilities, or lack of them. Will it be that she is just like her mother?
4/5