Take What You Can – Naima Coster

Description

Val and Milly met as students in France, bonded as the only two Black women on a study-abroad programme. A decade later both are married and expecting baby girls, and Milly — now a successful influencer married into a restaurant family — persuades Val to move to New York so they can raise their daughters side by side.

But as Val, a journalist struggling with her first book, adjusts to her old friend’s glossy world, the rift that once divided them in France resurfaces. Naima Coster’s gripping third novel is a sharp, tender story of friendship, ambition, motherhood and the secrets we keep.