#daniela petrova

Ooh, this was a ride.

On an impulse she doesn’t quite understand Lana follows a familiar face through the Upper West Side. The egg donor she’d selected so that she could have a baby (and who is supposed to be anonymous to Lana). She wants to know more about her, and her plan never includes coming face to face with her, until she does.

It was an interesting mystery combined with an intensely suspenseful through line too. A fun read that even had me guessing at times.

You may like this book If you Liked: The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy, The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks, or A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell

Interview: Daniela Petrova, author of Her Daughter’s Mother

Today I’m excited to talk with Daniela Petrova, author of the new thriller, Her Mother’s Daughter. Daniela grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Sofia, Bulgaria. After the fall of Communism, she moved to New York where she cleaned apartments while taking English classes at the YMCA in the evenings. She is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship in Writing from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her…

Book Review: Her Daughter’s Mother by Daniela Petrova

As a woman and a physician who’s undergone a fertility work-up, I was very interested in reading Her Daughter’s Mother by Daniela Petrova. Little did I know I was getting myself into a psychological thriller. Entranced, I stayed up until four a.m. to finish the book in one sitting.

Lena is a savvy woman, an art historian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has spent years developing her…