You Were Always Mine By Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Hardback published by Harper Collins 20th July 2023
ISBN 9780008335984
Cinnamon Hayes has fought hard for everything she has her marriage, a stable job as a career counsellor, and a home of her own. She’s overcome the difficult circumstances of her childhood to build this life, and yet, she can’t help but wonder is this all there is?
Just nineteen years old, Daisy Dunlap has already faced her share of hardships, but she has big dreams for her future. A future which is threatened when she falls unexpectedly pregnant and, desperate and alone, she makes a drastic decision with devastating consequences.
Cinnamon finds an abandoned baby in the park, she takes the newborn into her Ho, and must deal with the shocking judgements from everyone about why a Black woman like her would take in this blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby. Then Cinnamon’s fragile hold over the baby is threatened and she must fight for the family she wants even if that might cost her everything.
MY REVIEW
Today I’m giving a big shout out about You Were Always Mine as it one of my top favourite fiction books this summer!
Cinnamon Hayes was brought up by her aunt, but now she is happily married. Cinnamon’s husband Jayson plans for them to move into his grandmother’s place which has sat empty since she died. He also has a plan to have a to have a new restaurant, but that dream plan, is draining their bank account.
For a year, Cinnamon has met a new white girl Daisy, that’s half her age who she regularly meets on a bench in the park, where they chat about their lives.
One day cinnamon is in the park, when she finds an abandoned white newborn baby girl, with a note.
You’re the kind of mother my daughter needs. You come from good people who raised you right, and I know you’ll do the same for my little girl. You’ll give her all the things I can’t.
Instantly Cinnamon knows that the newborn baby was by her friend Daisy.
Cinnamon takes the baby home. But what will her husband Jayson think of cinnamon bringing home a white newborn baby?
An unputdownable story!
This books is comes highly recommended by me!
Christine Pride is a writer, editor, and longtime publishing veteran. She’s held editorial posts at many different trade imprints, including Doubleday, Broadway, Crown, Hyperion, and Simon & Schuster. As an editor, Christine has published a range of books, with a special emphasis on inspirational stories and memoirs, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. As a freelance editorial consultant, she does select editing and proposal/content development, as well as teaching and coaching, and pens a regular column—“Race Matters”—for Cup of Jo. She lives in New York City.
https://www.Instagram.com/cpride
JoPiazza is an award-winning journalist, editor, digital content strategist and author.
Her latest book, How to be Married will be released by Penguin Random House in April 2017.
Her novel, The Knockoff, became an instant international bestseller in May 2015 and has been translated into 13 languages.
She has written and reported for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, the New York Times, New York, Glamour, CNN, Elle, Marie Claire and Slate.
Jo regularly appears as a commentator on NPR, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
Her nonfiction book about progressive American nuns, If Nuns Ruled the World, was released to critical acclaim in September of 2014. The New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote about it in the Sunday Times: “In an age of villainy, war and inequality, it makes sense that we need superheroes. And after trying Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, we may have found the best superheroes yet: Nuns.”
Jo lives in San Francisco with her giant dog and her husband.
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