Everything Happens for a Reason

When Rachels baby is stillborn, she becomes obsessed with the idea that saving a strangers life months earlier is to blame. An unforgettable, heart-wrenching, warm and funny debut. \r\n\r\n------------------------\r\n\r\nMum-to-be Rachel did everything right, but it all went wrong. Her son, Luke, was stillborn and she finds herself on maternity leave without a baby, trying to make sense of her loss.\r\n\r\nWhen a misguided well-wisher tells her that everything happens for a reason, she becomes obsessed with finding that reason, driven by grief and convinced that she is somehow to blame. She remembers that on the day she discovered her pregnancy, shed stopped a man from jumping in front of a train, and shes now certain that saving his life cost her the life of her son.\r\n\r\nDesperate to find him, she enlists an unlikely ally in Lola, an Underground worker, and Lolas seven-year-old daughter, Josephine, and eventually tracks him down, with completely unexpected results... Both a heart-wrenchingly poignant portrait of grief and a gloriously uplifting and disarmingly funny story of a young womans determination, Everything Happens for a Reason is a bittersweet, life- affirming read and, quite simply, unforgettable.\r\n\r\n------------------------