Always Hope by Heather Frimmer ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

Obstetrician Jessica Schorr will never forget the worst day of her life and the way it ended, with the traumatic delivery of a baby with cerebral palsy. Plagued with debilitating panic attacks since that day, she can't stop blaming herself for what happened.

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October 2025; TEN16 Press; 978-1645385790
ebook, print (304 pages); medical fiction

The author weaved together the lives of three people in crisis to give her readers an emotional novel that will tug at your heartstrings with a story that you won't soon forget.

Jessica is an Obstetrician and is well-liked in the community. Two years earlier, she delivered a baby with cerebral palsy.  Deep down, she fears that it may have been her fault, and is having panic attacks that affect her ability to do her job and affect her family life.  She has a loving husband and two daughters - one of whom has just decided that she wants to be addressed using they/them because she isn't sure of her sexuality. It helps her panic attacks, to give small anonymous gifts to Hope.  She has so many things going on in her life and is struggling to handle her work and her family life, and when a malpractice suit is brought against her, she really has trouble coping with life.

Kendall is Hope's mother, who is struggling with her daughter's health.  She goes to a small play group where all of the other children are progressing at normal rates, and knows that her daughter is way behind.  When the pediatrician tells her that Hope will never walk or talk, and she shares that with her husband, he wants to sue the doctor who delivered Hope.  Kendall is torn between the love for her daughter and her struggle with her daughter's disease, and agrees that the doctor should be sued to help pay for Hope's future.

Abe is the attorney who agrees to bring the malpractice suit against Dr Schorr.  He is struggling with his law practice and with his life.  His beloved wife had died a year earlier, and he isn't coping well with day-to-day life without her.  He needs is a case with real merit, a chance to prove to himself, and to everyone else, that he's not just some lowly ambulance chaser. 

Can these three flawed characters find happiness and redemption in their lives?  The book is an emotional look at these three characters - good and bad - and covers a difficult situation, but throughout the story, can they find hope for the current problems as well as their futures?

I really enjoyed this book.  The author pulled me in on the first page, and I had trouble putting the book down.  All three main characters were so well written, and their problems were heartbreaking.  There really was no 'bad guy' in this story -- all of the characters were looking for love and hope for their future, and needed to learn to forgive themselves and depend on their families for the love that they needed to face their futures.  

Always Hope combines a fast-paced story with deep emotional resonance, ultimately exploring the imperfection of being human, the importance of forgiveness, and the power of transformation.

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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west.  She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.   

 

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