Name: The Dream Daughter
ISBN: 9781427287458

Diane Chamberlain

A Novel

The Dream Daughter

"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 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."--

The dream daughter

Christine

Melyssa Tromberg 

In this book, Caroline finds out she is pregnant but her unborn baby girl has a fatal heart defect. Being 1970, it is a death sentence. Someone close to her in life reveals there might a solution - beginning a journey through time, generations and heartache to save her life.

There is something so surreal about this book- the era in which it takes place (1970's during the Vietnam War) and a mother's love for her child; it devasted me in the best way. 

"𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙤 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙, 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙞𝙩?"

Being a new mother myself, I couldn't help but get emotionally invested, feeling every win and lose. I loved the concept of this novel, but prepare your heart for all the feels.

Allie Herrington

Librarian: This is a lovely book. It should appeal greatly to readers who enjoy family stories and who enjoy historical fiction. However, it may prove problematic to get this book into their hands in the first place. This is because, unfortunately, this book will most likely end up being genrefied by most libraries as science fiction (it is, after all, a time travel story). And that could easily lead to the people who would most love this story overlooking in it because science fiction is not a genre that they would ever even think to read. 
Reader: I read this book in one sitting. It's a lovely story, that takes a science fiction premise to tell a timeless story of the relationship that exists between mothers and daughters. Highly recommend.

The Dream Daughter A Novel

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