Fragments by Sarah Foot

From Goodreads

How do you know right from wrong when your certainties about life are slipping through your fingers?

Phillip Snowe is a genius of the advertising world but what he can no longer do is sell himself to himself. Struggling to find meaning, he quits his career 'to give something back.'

Julia, his wife, a brilliant and beautiful lawyer, fights her own demons, but with her intelligence and hard work, she believes she can keep them at bay. And so far she has.

Into their lives comes Laura Cusack, a single mother torn between the demands of her young daughters and her own unfulfilled passions.

Whose needs should you put first? Your family's? Your neighbour's? A complete stranger's? Or your own? And once you have made that choice, how do you live with yourself?

Spanning three generations, this compassionate and surprising story - touching profoundly upon love, art, religion and the search for fulfilment - grips from first to last as it explores the moral and emotional complexities of modern life.

My thoughts

Firstly, my thanks to the Publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review. I gave this an 8/10 or 4 stars.

Like a jigsaw full of pieces that need putting together, this story tells the tale of several characters as fragments of their lives. This is a modern love story that deals with family life, relatonships, loyalty to others passion, romance and ultimately betrayals.

Whose needs should we put first? Torn between putting others first over ourselves, the characters of this story have some hard choices to make. 

I can thoroughly recommend this story to others and I doubt that any of us can fail to feel some empathy towards the characters, whilst we might not agree with their choices at times, I for one had empathy.