When I Was Your Mother: A Novel

When I Was Your Mother: A Novel

A mother never forgets. Maya and Gil are the picture-perfect couple: high school sweethearts with three beautiful children, a small house in the country, and seven years of blissful marriage. They really could not ask for more. But then Maya sees a report about a car crash, and a ten-year-old orphaned boy, and everything changes. Because underneath the beautiful love story lies a secret. A ten-year-old secret that Maya had kept hidden since she was eighteen, when she decided to put her first child up for adoption. Now, a decade later, she is certain – the child in the report is her son. As Maya finds herself unable to let go of her past, her secret slowly begins to uproot her present – her marriage, her job, and even her family. Can she trust her motherly intuition, or will her attempts to make up for her complicated past destroy all that she already has? Liora Carmeli’s latest novel is a riveting, unputdownable story of love, motherhood, and the difficult price of new beginnings, perfect for fans of Lisa Wingate and Kate Hewitt. "Due to a painful family experience, I was always fascinated by adoption as subject material, so when I turned to prose writing, I found myself compelled to write this adoption story. I consulted with psychologists and social workers about the adoption process. In Israel, they only allow for closed adoptions, where the biological parents cannot stay in contact with their child and must wait for them to open their adoption files. The pain a biological mother must feel in that situation resonated with me, and that is what I poured into this book." - Liora Carmeli