The Favor: A Novel

The Favor by Adele Griffin is a warm and insightful contemporary novel about friendship, motherhood, longing, and the unexpected ways families can be formed. Nora Hammond works at I’ll Have Seconds, a high-end vintage dress shop in Manhattan, where she has a gift for matching beautiful pieces with the perfect client. At home, however, she and her husband Jacob are struggling with debt, a small apartment, and fading hopes of having a child.

When wealthy socialite Evelyn Elliot enters Nora’s life, the two women form an unlikely connection. As Nora becomes Evelyn’s stylist and confidante, she is drawn into the world of New York’s elite. But when Evelyn offers to carry a baby for Nora, their friendship is tested in powerful and complicated ways.

Thoughtful and emotionally engaging, The Favor is a strong choice for readers of women’s fiction, contemporary fiction, friendship stories, and novels about motherhood.

Hardcover, Very Good