Books by Emily Giffin and Complete Book Reviews
Emily Giffin. Ballantine, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-17892-4
Giffin’s stellar latest (following First Comes Love), set in Nashville, concerns the wealthy Brownings and the scandal that ensues when their Princeton-bound son Finch appears to have taken a racy photo of Lyla Volpe, a high school sophomore on...
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Emily Giffin. Ballantine, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-54692-0
Fans of Giffin’s will find much to love in her chronicle of the rocky relationship between two disparate sisters 15 years after the death of their older brother, Daniel. Meredith is now a lawyer who’s always felt that she’s needed to make sacrifices
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Emily Giffin, Author . St. Martin's $21.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-312-32118-5
An unexpected love affair threatens a long-lived friendship in this soap opera–like debut from Atlanta ex-lawyer Giffin. Since elementary school, Rachel and Darcy have been best friends, with Darcy always outshining Rachel. While single Rachel
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Emily Giffin, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-312-32385-1
Giffin's sophomore effort-which tells the story that her bestselling Something Borrowed did from a different character's point of view-stars such an unsympathetic narrator that it's a little like reading a Cinderella story featuring one of the...
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Emily Giffin, Author . St. Martin's $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-55416-3
Giffin's latest is disappointing on all counts. Nick Russo is a pediatric plastic surgeon; his wife, Tessa (sister of Dex, from Something Borrowed
), is a professor turned stay-at-home mom living a cushy life in Boston. Nick is called in to...
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Emily Giffin, Author . St. Martin’s $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-34867-0
A chance encounter with an old flame in Giffin’s bittersweet, sometimes mawkish fourth novel causes Ellen Dempsey to consider anew what could have been. Shortly after marrying Andy, Ellen runs into Leo, her “intense” first love....
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Emily Giffin, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-312-34864-9
The bestselling author of Something Borrowed
and Something Blue
now tells the story of what happens after the "I do"s. As a successful editor at a Manhattan publishing house, Claudia Parr counts herself fortunate to meet and marry Ben, a...
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Emily Giffin, Author, Kathleen McInerney, Read by , read by Kathleen McInerney. Macmillan Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0421-9
Kathleen McInerney’s reading as first-person narrator Ellen is sensitive, nuanced and multilayered, laying bare the conflicting emotions and contradictions in Ellen’s heart as she’s torn between her loving husband and the old flame
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Emily Giffin, Author, Jennifer Wiltsie, Read by , read by Jennifer Wiltsie. Penguin Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0698-5
Jennifer Wiltsie's warm, emotionally expressive voice immediately draws listeners into Giffin's story and makes them sympathize with Rachel, whose growing attraction to her best friend's fiancé eventually develops into a guilt-r
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Emily Giffin, Author, Cynthia Nixon, Read by , read by Cynthia Nixon. Audio Renaissance $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-897-6
Cynthia Nixon is the perfect choice to narrate this seamlessly abridged chick lit novel, which unfolds like an extended Sex and the City
episode and deals with many of the same issues that the series' beloved TV characters faced during six...
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Emily Giffin. Ballantine, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-17895-5
Giffin’s suspenseful but sometimes unconvincing latest (after All We Ever Wanted) opens in May 2001, a week after 28-year-old reporter Cecily Gardner breaks up with her commitment-averse boyfriend. Lonely and sleepless, she makes a late-night visit...
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