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Romance · 2017 · R

Now That You Mention It

by Kristan Higgins

A woman returns to her hometown to heal from a devastating assault and confront the family she left behind.

New York Times–Bestselling Author: "The dialogue is witty and the prose is smooth . . . [A] moving take on starting over and repairing past hurts." — Publishers Weekly One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back. Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine commun

For17+GenreRomanceLength400 pagesRead time~8 hours

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Violence

A lot

Includes a break-in and a graphically described assault on the heroine, explicitly flagged by reviewers as a sexual-violence trigger warning for a specific chapter

Language

Barely any

Mild-to-moderate

Sexual Content

Some

The assault referenced above has sexual-violence overtones per reader content warnings

Substance Use

None

Not a major factor

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Nora was also bullied as a child; the book handles trauma recovery as a central theme, described by one reviewer as noticeably darker than Higgins's earlier work

What this book is about

After surviving a violent assault, Dr. Nora Stuart retreats to her Maine hometown to recover, forced to face the family and painful memories of childhood bullying she'd spent years avoiding, in one of Higgins's darker, more emotionally intense novels.

Notes for sensitive readers

Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.

Graphically described sexual-violence assault scene (flagged specifically by reviewers)

Childhood bullying trauma

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