Early Praise for LM Berthiaume and Defining Me: A Novel.
"In her debut novel, Berthiaume captures a woman's full experience of life in the most realistic way I've encountered. She flawlessly paints the steadfast comfort of long-term love and the anguish of forbidden chemistry side by side. This book has everything! The horribly relatable coping struggles throughout the height of the pandemic, childhood nostalgia, the complicated nature of growing and changing relationships with family and friends-even action and drama and twists when you least expect them! Defining Me is the perfect vacation book to tear through, reluctantly setting down for meals and other activities, and one you will want to recommend to every one of your girlfriends. I hope this marks the beginning of a long writing career by a phenomenal new author."
Laura Lockwood, Voice Actor & Narrator
"Defining Me's heroine, Izzy, is every woman. Every woman who is married. Every woman who has loved before. And every woman who still thinks about the one that got away. I couldn't put it down."
Indira Ranganathan, Narrator
"Defining Me by brand new author LM Berthiaume is a great escape into what could have been. A successful businesswoman, adoring mom of two kids, wife of a dreamy husband, Isabelle struggles with a tenuous relationship with her mother; healthy tension relating to career, travel and motherhood; and some particularly powerful unfinished heartsplosure from her past. All colliding against the strange backdrop of Covid when time seemed to standstill. Isabelle journeys back to her childhood home to rediscover herself and sort through the scattered chapters of her life to ultimately determine her path forward. It's equal parts funny, sad, raw, and sexy... everything you want in a page-turning [...] read." Laurie Kramer, Executive Coach, Leadership Development