Have You Met Nora?, Nicole Blades
Have You Met Nora?, Nicole Blades
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Have You Met Nora?

Author: Nicole Blades

Narrator: Cherise Boothe

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/31/2017


Synopsis

She's blossomed from a wealthy surgeon's beautiful daughter to elegant socialite to being the top fashion stylist in the country. And Nora Mackenzie is only days away from marrying into one of New York's richest, most powerful families. But her fairy tale rise is rooted in an incredible deception-one scandal away from turning her perfect world to ashes... What no one knows is that Nora is the biracial daughter of a Caribbean woman and a long-gone white father. Adopted-and abused-by her mother's employer, then sent to an exclusive boarding school to buy her silence, Nora found that "passing" as a white woman could give her everything she never had. Now, an ex-classmate who Nora betrayed many years ago has returned to her life to even the score. Her machinations are turning Nora's privilege into one gilded trap after another. Running out of choices, Nora must decide how far she will go to protect a lie or give up and finally face the truth. Praise for Have You Met Nora?: "Nora is tender, courageous, and beautifully flawed." -Rosalind Noonan, New York Times bestselling author. "A winding story full of secrets, betrayal, revenge, and love." -Rena Olsen, author of The Girl Before. "Blades has created a heroine both honorable and deceptive, both vulnerable and powerful, a heroine whose choices are at times shocking but arguably necessary." -Holly Chamberlin, author of The Season of Us. "This is a deft and searing commentary on identity and race." -Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathryn on February 01, 2025

I was drawn to reading this book by the synopsis and the cover and I kept reading because I wanted to see how Nora was going to deal with the big issues present in her life. It's a story of great injustice, revenge, fear and lies. Nora has had many things happen to her that she wants to keep hidden.......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on November 05, 2017

I had a bit of a difficult time with this book. It started out okay for me, but the middle really lagged. I think it took me a little too long to figure Nora out. Once I did, I found the scenes explaining how she became who she is in the present to be interesting, but it was almost a little too late......more

Goodreads review by Stevie on November 22, 2017

Previously reviewed on The Good, The Bad, and The Unread: I’m always intrigued by conventions and assumptions that are different in the US to how they are over here in the UK, particularly when it comes to issues of race and class. I can’t see anyone over here going to the lengths Nora does to concea......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on November 01, 2017

HAVE YOU MET NORA? is intense and passionate and painful even while being fun and loving. As with Nicole Blades' earlier novel THE THUNDER BENEATH US, friendships play an important role as do "meant to be" romantic partnerships. The layers revealed about the characters and the fluctuating sympathy B......more

Goodreads review by Noemi on November 12, 2017

Nora Mackenzie seems to have a perfect fairy-tale life: she has a fantastic job as a fashion stylist in New York and is about to marry one of the richest and most sought-after bachelors in Manhattan. But Nora’s secret and scandalous past threatens to ruin everything she has worked for when a former......more