My Daughter's Baby

Diana and Andrew have money, standards, and a daughter they stopped speaking to when she married someone they considered beneath her. The estrangement had gone on long enough to feel permanent.

Sophie dies giving birth. She leaves a husband her parents have never accepted, a mother-in-law from a world they do not recognise, and a newborn.

Kate Hewitt gives the book to all of them in turn, and the question of where the baby should live becomes the vehicle for everything else: what Diana and Andrew actually did to their daughter, what her husband is able to offer, what his own mother sees that nobody else does, and whether any of these people can grieve the same person without it turning into an argument about class.