The dream daughter

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Diane Chamberlain: The dream daughter (2018)

371 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2018

ISBN:
978-1-250-08730-0
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OCLC Number:
1016933253

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2 stars (3 reviews)

"DIANE CHAMBERLAIN is the international bestselling author of twenty-three novels. She lives in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole."--

"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. 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 …

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1 star

Just: wow. I can't even label this with a genre.

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I'm always up for a plausible time traveling story, and aspects of this initially made me think of Steven King's 11/22/63. I was willing to suspend disbelief when the protagonist traveled from the 1970s to 2001 so that she could have fetal surgery to make her pregnancy viable. I was even willing to humor the author's need to highlight how wacky all aspects of modern living would look to someone from the 70s.

But then... this becomes a book of terrible and selfish decisions. I even found myself hoping the whole thing would end up being told by a woman who was committed to a mental hospital because she had had a psychotic break and tried to kidnap a child who wasn't her own.

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4 stars

I wasn't familiar with Diane Chamberlain's work when I was offered an advance review copy of The Dream Daughter. Since I suffer from a heart condition that's difficult to treat the subject matter intrigued me. I became a fan of Chamberlain's ability to draw such compelling characters too. Science fiction can sometimes be so cold and analytical but not in this case. Carly's emotions and her drive are so very real, and often quite raw. Her grief, hope, desperation, and love made it so much easier to believe that a woman would make such risky choices.

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Subjects

  • Mothers and daughters
  • Fiction