Emily Giffin stopped by Good Morning America to discuss her latest novel.
Giffin’s Love You More, set for publication next Tuesday by Ballantine, follows Billie, a New York physician engaged to a surgeon who receives a call from her ex-boyfriend, Mick, informing her that her longtime best friend has died in a car crash. She travels back to her Wisconsin hometown, where she realizes she might not be over Mick. A critic for Kirkus called the book “a deliciously dramatic look at how one woman’s past influences her future.”
GMA co-host Lara Spencer noted that the book is about “true love and timing” and asked Giffin why she thought those two things “go hand in hand.”
“Timing absolutely matters, and sometimes the right person comes along at the wrong time,” Giffin said. “Life gets in the way: careers, family obligations, grief, or sometimes one or both people just not being ready. But circumstances change, and people can grow and work on themselves.…Sometimes love gets a second chance.”
Asked if she drew from inspiration from her own life to write the novel, Giffin replied, “I’ve always been fascinated by those forks in the road of our lives and how the choices that we make shape what we become.…Everyone has a moment that they look back on and think, What if? What if I had taken this path, what would my life look like? And that’s really what happens with Billie in Love You More.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
