Promises To Keep

Callie Perry is a successful family photographer living in tony Bedford, New York.

She adores her children, has great friends, and actually doesn’t mind that her workaholic husband gets home at 9 p.m. every night-since it gives her some blissful quiet time to herself as well. And Callie is one of those people who can’t help but light up every room she enters.

Steffi is Callie’s younger sister, and unlike her irrefutably settled sibling, Steffi has never grown up. She’s always been a free spirit, living in Manhattan and bouncing between jobs and boyfriends. At thirty she finally discovered that she’s a natural chef and that people can actually make a living off their passions. But she will discover another side of herself-one that finds a simpler life in the country, with its steadier pleasures, surprisingly seductive.

Lila Grossman is Callie’s best friend and has finally met the man of her dreams. Ed has a wonderful son whom Lila adores, but there’s a problem: a demanding harridan ex-wife who hates everything about Lila and. is determined to create a perennial crisis to keep attention firmly on her.

And then there are Callie and Steffi’s parents, Walter and Honor. Divorced for thirty years, they rarely speak to each other. They may share two grownup daughters, but it’s obvious they share little else.

In her twelfth novel, Jane Green is at her heartwarming best as she creates a tale of exceptional circumstances and the ties that bind. Promises to Keep is a novel about the hard choices we have to face, about having to be your parents’ child long after you’ve grown up, and finally, about the enduring nature of love.