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Violence
Some
Car accident; the aftermath of sudden loss
Language
Some
Contemporary language; some mild strong words
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit-adjacent romantic content; Clara's teenage relationship is separate from Morgan's
Substance Use
Barely any
Some social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Grief for a person who turns out to be different from who you loved; a mother and daughter finding out they're more similar than they knew; the betrayal revealed after death
What this book is about
Morgan loses her husband in an accident and discovers he was not who she thought he was. Her daughter Clara is sixteen and grieving too. Regretting You is Hoover's most ambitious dual-POV novel—mother and daughter, both in complicated emotional situations, told in parallel.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Car accident death—opening trauma
Posthumous betrayal revelation
Explicit-adjacent romantic content
Dual POV—mother and teenage daughter
One of Hoover's most emotionally complex structures
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