The Dream Daughter
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4.2 • 12 Ratings
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
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 new existed. Something that will mean a mind-bending leap of faith on Caroline's part.
And all for the love of her unborn child.
The Dream Daughter sees Diane Chamberlain push the boundaries to deliver a novel that you will never forget.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The lengths a parent will go to in order to save a child are almost limitless. In Diane Chamberlain’s jaw-dropping novel, pregnant war widow Carly Sears has to figure out exactly where her boundaries are after her daughter is diagnosed with a heart defect in the womb—and her physicist brother-in-law presents her with a dramatic opportunity to save the baby. Chamberlain’s riveting writing bounds across eras, melds different genres and embraces a world of utterly human emotions. The Dream Daughter is a pageturner with a beautifully realised soul.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Chamberlain's exciting and heartfelt novel (after The Stolen Marriage) follows one woman who risks everything to travel through time and save the life of her unborn child. In 1970, after the death of her husband in the Vietnam War, pregnant Carly Sears moves in with her sister, Patti, and brother-in-law, Hunter, at their beach home in Nags Head, N.C. There, Carly finds that tragedy has followed her: she discovers that her unborn child has a fatal heart defect. It's at this point that Hunter reveals to Carly that he is a time traveler from the future and offers Carly a solution: she can time travel to 2001, where her child can receive life-saving fetal surgery. Carly finally believes Hunter's claims about time travel when his predictions about the tragic events at Kent State come true days later. After time traveling to 2001, Carly and her unborn child undergo an experimental surgery, remaining in New York City near the hospital prior to and after her daughter Joanna's birth. But Carly's plan to return to 1970 with Joanna is derailed when her daughter becomes ill and must remain hospitalized. Chamberlain expertly blends the time-travel elements with the wonderful story of a mother's love and the depths of sacrifice she makes for her child. This is a page-turning crowd-pleaser. 150,000-copy announced first printing.)
