Regretting You
Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body. With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara. While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.
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Morgan got pregnant in high school and married Chris. Sixteen years later their daughter Clara is the same age Morgan was. A car accident sends mother and daughter into private grief and a bad fight.
Regretting You contains some explicit on-page romance, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The novel alternates between a mother and a daughter, with the romance more central in the daughter's chapters.
Regretting You contains some explicit on-page romance, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The novel alternates between a mother and a daughter, with the romance more central in the daughter's chapters.
Yes. A film adaptation directed by Josh Boone is in development, with a release scheduled for 2026. Allison Williams is attached to star.
Regretting You was written by Colleen Hoover, published in 2019 by Otwarte.
Regretting You is 387 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Regretting You takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
Regretting You is a standalone novel by Colleen Hoover, not part of a series.
Regretting You is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.