More Than Enough

A woman confronts the surprising results of an ancestry test and begins to question the meaning of family and friendship in this wise, tender novel teeming with life—from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of After Annie.

High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they’ve become her closest friends and, along with her veterinarian husband, the bedrock of her life. Her students, her fraught relationship with her mother, her struggles with IVF—Polly’s book club friends have heard it all.

But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger. Despite it seeming clear that this match is a mistake, Polly cannot help but comb through her own family history for answers. Then, when it seems that the book club circle of four will become three, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways.

Written with Anna Quindlen’s trademark warmth, humour, and insight into the power of love and hope, More Than Enough explores how we find ourselves again and again through the relationships that define us.

Praise for Anna Quindlen

‘Leaves the reader feeling grateful, wide awake, lucky to be alive’ Michael Chabon

‘Simply impossible to forget’ Alice Hoffman

‘Qualities and shades of love are this writer's strong suit, and she has the unusual talent for writing about them with so much truth and heart’ Elizabeth Jane Howard

‘Breathtaking... Quindlen writes superbly about families, grief and betrayal. I was completely mesmerised’ Lisa Jewell

‘Engaging, immaculately constructed storytelling’ Guardian

‘One of our most astute chroniclers of modern life’ New York Times Book Review

‘Brave and beautiful’ The Times

‘Her storytelling is exemplary’ Sunday Telegraph

‘With relentless and dazzling brilliance, Quindlen grapples with the lancing pain and the swirls of disorientation experienced by anyone who has loved and lost’ Daily Mail

‘A wise, closely observed, achingly eloquent book’ Huffington Post

‘Overwhelmingly moving’ New York Times