More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen

Publisher: Random House

On Sale Date: February 24 2026

Pages: 256

I reviewed a digital review copy from the publisher

Polly is a 43 year old woman who lives with her husband Mark in New York City. She is a teacher at a private high school for girls. With a few other women, she has formed a book club which meets frequently. One of the other members has given Polly a DNA test kit as a gift. When she gets the results she is stunned that she has a relative she has never heard of, but who has a match with her. She questions her family members if they knew of this family member, who she also will meet up with.

Besides that, she also has to deal with her elderly father's dementia, and with the fact that, due to infertilily, she will never has children of her own, and with the difficult relationship with her mother.

More Than Enough is a book about a main character who is dealing with a lot of things at the same time. The things and the people in her life move from one part to the other in the book, and all play their little part instead of a real overall storyline in the book. This is something that depends on the reader to like this or not. I found it sometimes hopping too much from one point to another and sometimes the story had many loose ends. I missed a real strong storyline in this book to be honest. From the half of the book on the story falls flat on too many subplots that makes it hard to stay interested as a reader.

This is a book I expected to like more than I actually did.