I can't imagine the devastation of finding out that the child you have raised and loved isn't really yours and your flesh and blood baby is out in the world in someone else's arms. This book deals with that situation, thankfully a very unusual scenario - but not unheard of. This would be one reason that I have had my last 4 babies at home - there is no doubt that they are really mine!
The characters in this book are heart wrenching because, as in all things in life, there are two sides to every story. So we see Marty as she deals with having loved the daughter she raised and yet want to insert herself into Andie's life now. Then there is Andie who has just lost her parents in an accident only to find out that they weren't really her parents and now she is taken away from her grandparents and the only people she knows and loves and inserted into a family to "replace" their daughter that died. Not to mention the older and younger sisters already in the family, Marty's dad, Andie's grandparents and even the Blue Moon itself is a character in this storyline. This book made me laugh and cry and I really enjoyed it. For a good women's fiction - turn to "Tuesday Night at the Blue Moon".
The characters in this book are heart wrenching because, as in all things in life, there are two sides to every story. So we see Marty as she deals with having loved the daughter she raised and yet want to insert herself into Andie's life now. Then there is Andie who has just lost her parents in an accident only to find out that they weren't really her parents and now she is taken away from her grandparents and the only people she knows and loves and inserted into a family to "replace" their daughter that died. Not to mention the older and younger sisters already in the family, Marty's dad, Andie's grandparents and even the Blue Moon itself is a character in this storyline. This book made me laugh and cry and I really enjoyed it. For a good women's fiction - turn to "Tuesday Night at the Blue Moon".
This is a very sensitive book dealing with the death of a beloved child & then the knowledge that the baby had been switched at birth. The mother seeks out the child that was born to her but switched when she learns that the child's parents are dead & she has only her elderly grandparents to care for her. The conflicts within the family, the mother's struggles to love this new child, & the 13 year old's struggles to understand are all very real. The ending is very touching.
