An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.
From USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes a suspenseful, emotionally charged novel that explores the secrets and hidden truths within a seemingly perfect marriage.
Abbie MacIntyre is living the dream in the picturesque Nova Scotia town she calls home. She is a successful surgeon, is married to a handsome cardiologist, and has a … married to a handsome cardiologist, and has a model teenage son who is only months away from going off to college.
But then one fateful night, everything changes. When a drunk driver hits her car, Abbie is rushed to the hospital. She survives, but the accident forces unimaginable secrets out into the open and plagues Abbie with nightmares so vivid that she starts to question her grip on reality. Her perfect life begins to crack, and those cracks threaten to shatter her world completely.
The search for answers will test her strength in every way—as a wife, a career woman, and a mother—but it may also open the door for Abbie to move forward, beyond anger and heartbreak, to find out what she is truly made of. In learning to heal and trust again, she may just find new hope in the spaces left behind.
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Not sure I liked the ending but it was gripping and unpredictable and an easy-read
What the author is trying to portrait on my view is that will should never give up,every thing is going to be alright
I loved this book. I found myself sneaking in reading time just to see where the story was going to go. I found Abbie to be a wonderful character she is an intelligent women yet the curve in her road of life has her rethinking everything. I will be looking into more books by Julianne MacLean I really enjoyed her writing style.
Really like this book. Was about real life situations & how you deal with them.
Sucked me in from the very first paragraph. Loved this book!
I admit I am a fan of pithy, sharp dialogue. I found that element missing in this novel that begins with a car wreck in which Abbie is nearly killed by her husband driving the other car. When he dies from his injuries, Abbie is stunned. But her conversations with various characters–her teen-age son, her mother, and the vet who saves her dog don’t ring true for me. In my opinion, there’s only one surprise in the book (no spoiler). That surprise ultimately helps Abbie deal with her fury at her unfaithful husband. But … under the circumstances, everyone is just a bit too civilized.
This story provides insight into the struggle of forgiveness and the pain of betrayal. It’s a gripping account of all the emotions and questions that come from a secret that’s been kept from a spouse. Harder still, the fact that the spouse with the secret, died before it was revealed. How then do you work through everything? You don’t have the one person who will answer all the questions. An emotional story, an amazing book.
I received an Advanced Reader Copy. I am voluntarily leaving a review. Dr Abbie MacIntyre has the perfect life. She and her husband are well-respected doctors in their field. They have been happily married for 20 years. They have a son, a senior in high school, the capyain of the hockey team and on the student council. She visits her mom every Sunday. But on this Sunday night, her perfect life is shattered by a drunk driver. This emotional story is about survival, physically, emotionally and mentally. as well as second chances and new beginnings. It is a 4 kleenex read. 4.5 star
After surviving an accident in which she is hit by a drunk driver, a woman discovers shocking things. As if that’s not enough to deal with, she begins suffering vivid nightmares as she tries to move on from the blows she’s encountered. This was a well-written, not overly lengthy story.
The author created a truly surprising situation that cold easily have been true. Unique !
This would be considered womens fiction….a woman, married, successful, great son, husband, and Winston…the dog. And all about how life throws us curveballs and do we fold up and leave, fight on, fall apart?
Abbie, doctor, and her dog, Winston, are headed back to see her son Zach in a game when there is a car accident. The accident is bad and the other driver dies in the hospital…that scene is a big shocker.
But more take place afterwards with the dead driver being drunk and at the funeral later when a lady Paula shows up. And Winston being rescued and saved by the vet Nathan.
This novel takes place over time, dealing with the curveballs Abbie is thrown and how she and Zach deal over time
The most real scenes are those of Abbie and her relationship to her dog …the most raw and honest. Even with her son, the scenes seem at times stilted as is most of the book…I couldn’t get emotionally as involved as I would have liked and I’m not sure why.
Her times with her own mother seemed right and solid in the writing as did the text messaging with the vet…..but I couldn’t get a real feel for her marriage……and her relationship with Alan, her husband.
I thought death was bad enough but then throwing in cancer and a crap relationshio with Alan’s dad was over the top ..but it was not written hysterically…almost downplayed.
And Paula, I just could not figure her out and her new relationship to Abbie at the end …
Read it, enjoy it if you like light fiction but in no way did this bring me to tears or caring deeply…..sorry.
Good book, revealing little secrets gradually, which really kept my interest. The ending, for me, was just a little too unrealistic. But overall, a good read.
A Curve in the Road by Julianne MacLean is a great story that will keep you turning pages and reaching for a box of tissues. Abbie’s life is completely turned upside down. What she believed about her husband and her marriage is tossed down a cliff. How can she go on? Should she tell her son? Can she face the future without her husband?
The plot and characters are well developed. I highly recommend this book. I received it as a gift and I always review every book that I read.
This story covered so many different areas of relationship – – those between a husband and wife, a mother and child, parents and siblings, and that relationship that develops when one meets someone who touches that special part of your heart with interest and yearning. And Julianne MacLean is the author who can so clearly and with such grace deal with such difficult issues in, within, and surrounding relationships. After a shockingly tragic motor vehicle accident, Abbie, a successful surgeon married to physician Alan, has her entire world turned upside down and shaken and stirred. How she deals with each aspect of what comes at her as a result of his death, we readers take in how Abbie deals compared to what we would do, or even if we know what we’d do. The story that has such a whirlwind effect, has a wonderful HEA that most every reader would agree Abbie deserves. I’m always thrilled to see how Ms MacLean deals with such amazing and heart-rendering situations, and she never lets me down.
Wow, this was a wonderful book. I have never read a book by this author before. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really liked Abbie and the rest of the characters. I love how she works through her trials and tries to be a better person. No one is perfect and that includes Abbie and the other characters, but they are truly good and trying to be better. I love the inspiration this book inspires. The writing style is easy-to-read and very engaging. I would be reading along and look at the clock and realize how quickly the time flew by. I will definitely be reading more by this author.
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for my review.
I absolutely loved this book. From the very first page to the last. I was disappointed when it ended. First the wreck that ended her life as she knew it and stirred up so much more. Overcoming all the curves thrown at her brings our main character to a better place.
Read this book in 1 day could not put it down.
Linda(I don’t care who does as long as the dog lives)
Abbie had a premonition that something bad was about to happen.
Dr. Abbie MacIntyre has just started the hour-long drive back home after Sunday dinner with her widowed mother when a car crosses the center median of the highway careening into Abbie’s SUV and sending it off road, rolling over and over until landing in the bottom of a ravine. She is successfully extracted from the wreckage and transported to the nearest medical facility suffering a minor head wound. The driver of the other vehicle, smelling heavily of alcohol, is in the same unit and in far worse condition awaiting airlift to a proper trauma hospital.
Abbie’s mother comes to her daughter’s side and both repeatedly attempt to contact Abbie’s husband, Dr. Alan Sedgewick, to notify him of the accident. (Abbie was supposed to have met him that evening at their son’s hockey game.) They are unsuccessful until emergency workers deliver the personal items of the drivers retrieved from the accident site to the hospital and Alan’s cellphone is discovered among the detritus. To everyone’s shock and horror, the drunk driver is Abbie’s own husband!
This is just the beginning of “A Curve in the Road” by Julianne MacLean. Once I started reading this book I didn’t want to put it down. The story is emotional and full of surprises as family relationships and secrets are revealed in the aftermath of the accident. Abbie’s perfectly normal life will never be the same again as the answers to how and why her loving, cardiologist husband who rarely drank even a glass of wine was driving drunk and was not headed to their son’s hockey game. This book is recommended to readers that enjoy a contemporary setting with romantic plotlines of betrayal, forgiveness, and second chances.
OH, and it features an awesome golden retriever as well.
Actions create a ripple affect in the lives of people we hold close.
There is more than one curve in the road in this wonderfully written story. Abbie and Alan have been married for 20 years, are both successful surgeons with a seventeen year old son. Abbie thought she knew everything about her husband, but she had more to learn, unfortunately it came with a price. A car accident changes many things in their life. One accident that affected their lives in so many ways. Throw in a few more curves. The family dynamics in this story gave me feelings of hope, sadness, and anger. Grief affects everyone differently and there is no way of knowing how anyone will react until it happens to you. Thank you Julianne MacLean for this portrayal of how differences in family situations affect the way we react to what happens in our life.
This is a moving story of loss and grief. Of lies, betrayal and also, of forgiveness and moving forward. This book captured me from the first page and kept me turning the pages till the very end. The characters are richly developed and believable. I was a part of Abbie’s life. I felt such a wide range of emotions. From fear to heartache, from sadness to hope. This book is classic Julianne MacLean. It takes you into its pages and you become a part of this family. Well written, it flows well from beginning to end. Here are a few of my favorite quotes: “Pain is part of life, and we have to deal with it when it comes.” ” But sometimes, a flicker of light can emerge from the darkest, most unexpected tragedies.” ” happiness may recede sometimes, but it comes back. It always comes back.” I received this book from NetGalley and the publishers in exchange for honest feedback. I honestly loved every minute of it!