Celebrating 30 Yrs of Diane Chamberlain!

I'm here to celebrate a major milestone in the career of New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain. When St. Martins’ Griffin releases the paperback of THE DREAM DAUGHTER on June 4th it will mark Diane's 30th year as a published author! Help me in celebrating this amazing author, below is more on The Dream Daughter.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Diane Chamberlain’s 25th novel, THE DREAM DAUGHTER 
St. Martin’s Griffin
On-sale June 4th, 2019
$16.99; ISBN-13: 9781250087317

Now available in paperback, is unlike anything she’s ever written before. Compelling and unusual, think Back to the Future meets The Time Traveler’s Wife, it raises the question: Just what would you do to save your child? Would you travel through time? 

Caroline Sears is a young woman who only recently lost her husband to the war in Vietnam. Now, she’s learned her unborn baby has a heart defect, and will likely die shortly after childbirth. The grief she’s experiencing is unimaginable.

Hunter, a physicist, and mysterious guy from the get-go, is Caroline’s brother-in-law. He tells her otherwise, that her unborn baby can be saved...in the future, the year 2001 to be exact. But it will require an unparalleled leap of faith, strength, and courage on Caroline’s part. With nothing left to lose, she takes the plunge, jumping decades, to save her baby. 

What follows is a “mind-bending and heartfelt”* read, one that “seamlessly weaves time travel and global events into a credible and gut-wrenching family saga.”**

PRAISE FOR THE DREAM DAUGHTER
“This mind-bender of a novel will keep you glued to the page.”—People Magazine

“We may forget how different life was in 1970, but imagine being thrust from those days to 2013. Diane Chamberlain does in this terrific novel.”—NJ.com, Top Ten Books of 2018

“Chamberlain stretches her sense of familial relationships with toe-curling suspense in new directions, weaving in elements of trust, history, and time as she explores the things we do for love. With a little tension and a lot of heart, The Dream Daughter will delight.”—Booklist

“Chamberlain writes with supernatural gifts akin to those she chronicles in the book, seamlessly weaving time travel and global events into a credible and gut-wrenching family saga. Fate, destiny, chance and hope combine for a heady and breathless wonder of a read.”—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale**

“Can a story be both mind-bending and heartfelt? In Diane Chamberlain’s hands, it can. The Dream Daughter will hold readers in anxious suspense until the last satisfying page.”—Therese Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of Z*

“Rich and breathtaking.”—Woman’s World

“The Dream Daughter is a heartwarming and exciting page-turner.”—Augusta Chronicle 

“Chamberlain’s exciting and heartfelt novel is a page-turning crowd-pleaser.”—Publishers Weekly

“The story is well-paced and the ending satisfyingly sweet.”—Kirkus Reviews

“An entertaining chick-lit adventure.”—Wilmington Star-News 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Diane Chamberlain is the international bestselling author of 25 novels. She lives in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her sheltie.

CONNECT WITH DIANE

Website: https://dianechamberlain.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Diane.Chamberlain.Readers.Page

Twitter: https://twitter.com/d_chamberlain

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chamberlain_diane/

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Waiting on Wednesday [WoW] is a weekly event hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain

Expected Publication: October 6, 2015

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Synopsis

It's the summer of 1990 and fourteen-year-old Molly Arnette lives with her extended family on one hundred acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The summer seems idyllic at first. The mountains are Molly's playground and she's well loved by her father, a therapist famous for books he's written about a method callled 'Pretend Therapy,' her adoptive mother, who has raised Molly as her own and Amalia, her birth mother who also lives on the family land. The adults in Molly's life have created a safe and secure world for her to grow up in. But Molly's security begins to crumble as she becomes aware of a plan taking shape in her extended family--a plan she can't stop and that threatens to turn her idyllic summer into a nightmare.

Why I Can’t Wait

I’m a huge fan of Diane Chamberlain and this one is sure to not disappoint. Sounds like another amazing story!

Feel free to link me to yours.

Review + Giveaway: The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

Publication: October 7, 2014

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Format: ARC via publisher

Rating: 5/5

Synopsis

In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager.  Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary.  Lisa is alive.  Alive and living under a new identity.  But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now?  As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family.  Riley must decide what the past means for her present, and what she will do with her newfound reality.

My Thoughts

I loved this book! This book is so amazing; it was like a breath of fresh air for me. I haven’t been reading a lot of books lately mainly because I’ve been in a sort of rut. However this book gave me hope again. It has an amazing storyline, characters to root for and so many twist and turns there is nothing I didn’t like and enjoy about this read.

The story focuses on Riley who has come back to her hometown to deal with the aftermath of her father’s death. She feels she is all alone although she has a brother but he has issues beyond what Riley can help him with. While there she starts to uncover things about her father that just don’t seem right. Then she realizes she didn’t know her father at all. He has been keeping secrets beyond anything she could imagine. It comes out that her sister Lisa is indeed alive. Riley craving family decides she will try and find her and find out more importantly why she faked her death. Never did Riley realize that finding her sister she would uncover some long buried secrets and soon none of their lives will be the same.

This is my first experience reading Diane Chamberlain and let me say it will NOT be the last. Why haven’t I read her books before?? I’m now looking into her previous novels and wanting to read more. She writes in a way that I never saw anything coming and I loved that! Usual I can see thing coming from a mile away and that kind of spoil things for me. This is one of those reads that will definitely be telling people about. So if you want a fresh and great read this is the one for you. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

In honor of this awesome read I’m so happy to offer up TWO awesome books by Diane Chamberlain. The Silent Sister and Necessary Lies are two books I know you will love. One winner will receive BOTH book. U.S. only.

  

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Short Story Review: The Broken String by Diane Chamberlain

The Broken String by Diane Chamberlain

Published: August 26, 2014

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Format: via NetGalley

Rating: ⅘

Synopsis

In celebration of the forthcoming novel The Silent Sister, Diane Chamberlain introduces Riley MacPherson in the e-short story The Broken String. As seventeen-year-old Riley MacPherson rushes to the side of her brother who has been gravely injured in Iraq, she recalls their growing up years when he was her protector and best friend. Why did that relationship fall apart? She longs for a second chance to connect with her brother, not realizing that family secrets may prevent them from ever having that closeness again.

My Thoughts

This is a great introduction to the characters of Diane Chamberlain’s new novel The Silent Sister. I love how we get a sneak peak of the characters however nothing of the plot is revealed. I will say that The Silent Sister is one of best books I’ve read so far this year! I will post my review on Monday.

In this short we meet Riley and get the backstory of her and her family especially her brother. We don’t get so much of her sister which I think is good, that’s best saved for the full-fledged book. This is definitely a short at only 41 pages but I think it gives you a good starting point and sets you up perfectly for the novel.