The Girl Who Carried Home

She was the girl who held everyone together. No one ever thought to ask who was holding her.Ashley Rose Blanchet learned to carry a house before she learned to carry herself. The oldest daughter of a father unraveling into illness and a mother surviving on sheer will. She grew up keeping everyone fed while standing between her siblings and her father's belt. She was the strong one. She didn't get to fall apart.Then she met Daniel Whitfield.Old money. Easy belonging. A world that had never once asked him to be brave. With Daniel, Ashley glimpsed a life that might finally hold her instead of the other way around and in his arms, the girl who controlled everything learned, at last, how to let go.But you cannot raise yourself and come out unbroken. The distance between where Ashley came from and where she's trying to go runs straight through the center of who she is. And years later married, mothering, and aching with a loneliness she never saw coming. She'll go looking for the heat that makes her feel alive again and risk everything she built to find it.Spanning childhood to motherhood, The Girl Who Carried Home is a sweeping, emotional, and unflinching novel about class, mental illness, first love, and the long, quiet cost of being the strong one.For readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Kristin Hannah, Colleen Hoover, and the emotional book-club fiction of Virginia Evans and Carley Fortune.