The Dream Daughter
Fiction
St. Martin's Press
October 2, 2018
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384
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When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before—and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in secrets, Hunter embraced the Sears family and never looked back.
Now, Hunter is telling her that something can be done about her baby's heart. Something that will shatter every preconceived notion that Caroline has. Something that will require a kind of strength and courage that Caroline never knew existed. Something that will mean a mind-bending leap of faith on Caroline's part.
And all for the love of her unborn child.
A rich, genre-spanning, breathtaking novel about one mother's quest to save her child, unite her family, and believe in the unbelievable. Diane Chamberlain pushes the boundaries of faith and science to deliver a novel that you will never forget.
My review:
Being a big fan of this author, I don't usually go out of my way to read the synopsis of her books. I know I'm always going to get a well written, highly enjoyable story. Somehow I stumbled upon a few words about this one before reading it that filled me with dread! I thought I must be mistaken when I read that this book involved time travel, a thread in books that I avoid like the plague! Ranking right up there with ghosts and magic, time travel is on my list of reads that I avoid. I've only read a handful, but I haven't liked any of them..........until I did! Yes, this book is about time travel and I loved it!! Without giving too much of the plot away, this is about a mother in 1970 who travels to 2001, to give her unborn daughter in vitro open heart surgery to give her a chance to live (not medically possible in 1970). Of course things don't go according to plan, and the story keeps you on the edge of your seat flipping pages to find out what is going to happen. Great writing, believable time travel (I can't believe I'm typing that!), and characters that you will fall in love with. I teared up many times with this one. The ending was perfection!
Kudos to Ms. Chamberlain on this one! I'm not sure how she did it, but she turned this time travel book hater into even more of a fan of hers than I already was. Grab this one, don't get too technical with the details, and enjoy the perfection of a mother's love for her daughter.
