Regretting You

Now a major motion picture starring Mckenna Grace, Mason Thames, Allison Williams, and Dave Franco.

A New York Times bestseller.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris―Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.

While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times and International bestselling author of multiple novels and novellas. She lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. She is the founder of The Bookworm Box, a non-profit book subscription service and bookstore in Sulphur Springs, Texas.

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An Amazon Best Book of December 2019: Colleen Hoover’s novels frequently straddle the line between heartfelt romance and family drama, offering the best of both worlds. Her latest, Regretting You, again delivers a winner, with a story that’s vulnerable, genuine, and emotionally fulfilling. After she got pregnant at 17 and married her fun-loving boyfriend, Chris, Morgan put her future on hold to raise their daughter—a choice that Morgan has been satisfied with until recently. Now Morgan’s teenage daughter, Clara, likes a boy of dubious background, Morgan’s sister has just had a baby, and Morgan wants to finally do something with her life that involves paying attention to her own dreams for once. Then a fatal accident sends shock waves through the family, tearing at the bonds between Clara and Morgan. Hoover clearly understands the push and pull of even the best mother-daughter relationships, evoking empathy for both women and the mistakes they make as they struggle to reconcile the past and build a new future. —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review

“Regretting You” is a emotional family drama about grief, betrayal, and the difficult bond between a mother and daughter. The story follows Morgan Grant and her teenage daughter Clara, who already struggle to understand each other because Morgan became a mother very young and has spent years trying to keep Clara from repeating her mistakes.

At the center of the novel is the sudden death of Morgan’s husband, Chris, in a car accident. What makes the tragedy even worse is that Chris was with Morgan’s sister, Jenny, when he died, and the accident reveals a hidden affair between them. That discovery destroys the family’s sense of trust and forces Morgan to deal with both intense grief and a deep personal betrayal.

Morgan is left trying to hold her family together while hiding the full truth from Clara. Clara, meanwhile, is grieving in her own way and feels increasingly frustrated by her mother’s secrecy, which pushes their relationship into even more conflict. The novel shows how pain can make people withdraw, misunderstand one another, and act out when they most need support.

Alongside Morgan’s story, Clara experiences her first serious love with Miller Adams, a boy her mother does not approve of. Their relationship gives Clara a space to express herself, but it also adds to the tension at home because Morgan fears Clara will make the same reckless choices she once did. This parallel storyline highlights the novel’s focus on first love, independence, and the confusion of growing up.

As the secrets behind Chris and Jenny’s relationship come fully into view, both Morgan and Clara are forced to rethink the people they trusted and the lives they believed they had. Morgan begins to rediscover her own identity outside of marriage and motherhood, while Clara starts to see her mother as a flawed, hurting person rather than just a strict parent. The emotional center of the book is not only the affair itself, but the way the fallout reshapes everyone involved.

By the end, Regretting You becomes a story about surviving loss, facing uncomfortable truths, and learning that forgiveness does not happen quickly or easily. It is ultimately about how mothers and daughters can wound each other deeply while still finding a path back toward understanding and love.