I've read a lot of contemporary chick lit in my day, I only wished I had saved myself the time and money and had just gone straight to reading The Orchid House instead, since the author kindly read all those books for me, and then conveniently condensed every single modern-woman literature trope into one book. Elin Hildebrand? Audrey Niffenegger? Kristin Hannah? Nah. Save yourself hundreds of books and hundreds of dollars, you will find them all condensed here. 
 Let's see, off the top of my head, ZEE TROPES. 
 1. Modern-day famous pianist barely subsisting and starving her way through recovery from a hinted-at horrible tragedy (which isn't actually told until 1/4 of the way through the book after I had ripped about half the hair off my head in frustration) 
 2. Burgeoning romantic relationship with modern-day rake with a heart who also happens to be an aristocrat with a beautiful ancestral home 
 3. Well-meaning older sister, the hustle-and-bustle perfect family type, with 2.5 kids, a house with a picket fence, and a gruff and friendly husband 
 4. Re-acquaintance with old family. Oh, grandma? Totally forgot she existed, but now that she's here, time for old family secrets to be revealed!!!!!! She knows everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. Details of her lady's bedroom secrets? Spilled. 
 5. Ambiguously gay husband 
 6. Man recovers from illness in Thailand, falls in TWOO WUV with 17-year old Thai girl. Bonks her, swears up and down he'll leave his wife for her. Does he? Dun dun duuuuuuun. 
 7. Secret adoptions 
 8. Secret loves 
 9. Secret adoptions (2 is better than 1) 
 10. A Frenchman who is so over the top, this is how I imagined him: 
 And that's just off the top of my head. I think I had more fun keeping track of the tropes than reading the book itself. It took me a month to read this, getting through pages at a time. It was just that unabsorbing. If you must read this book, read it for the amusement value, there is little else to be had here.