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Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Publisher | Harper Collins | ||
ISBN | 9780007139859 | ||
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Wendy
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Synopsis
The compelling and heartrending new novel from the author of the million-selling The Deep End of the Ocean. A tragic accident, an orphaned one-year-old and a bitter struggle that will break your heart. For Gordon McKenna and his parents, the only way they can survive the loss of their beloved sister and daughter, Georgia, is to prepare to devote themselves heart and soul to the care of her baby girl, Keefer. But another family feels the same way and, as Keefer becomes the focus of a fiercely fought custody battle, the limits of love, and its capacity to heal, are tested again and again.
Review
This is a story about adoption and the custody battle for baby Keefer whose parents died in a car crash. On the whole I enjoyed the book once I had sorted out the family relationships. It was a bit slow to begin with and parts of it I found quite boring but as the story enfolds it improves enormously.
Gordon who was Keefer's uncle was denied custody because he was adopted and therefore no blood relation. Personally I do not think that Gordon was emotionally ready to adopt a child, blood related or not because he was immature and he was not in a stable relationship. I was curious to find that Jacquelyn Mitchard seemed to favour Gordon's family the Mckennas rather than the Nye's.
In the last chapter I found Gordon's marriage to Alex a little suprising. It is as if the author had to tie up all her lose ends in one final swoop with ten year old Keefer narrating.
A good story with a strong story line which I know will appeal to a great many readers. Recommended.
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