Jacquelyn Mitchard - Böcker

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.

From the bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean , a moving story about the modern family and making it work second time around.It is True Dickinson’s forty-third birthday and her best friends have gathered in this snowy night on Cape Cod for a celebration.She has been widowed for eight years, but she and her young son, Guy, have created their own self-sufficient little community of two. And True has her hugely successful small business, Twelve Times Blessed, her friends and, for better or worse, her mother. But as she celebrates her birthday, which just happens to fall on Valentine's Day, it seems as if everyone in the world is coupled up but her. Her stable life suddenly seems vulnerable. Then she meets a man who is perfect in every way – except one.Hank Bannister is immediately attracted to True's beauty, her humour and, most of all, her composure. Never mind that she’s ten years older than him. But the age gap seems like an eternity to True. Should she throw caution to the winds? And what will it mean for her son – and their safe family unit?Twelve Times Blessed is the story of one extraordinary year of transformation in a woman’s life.,and of trying to reconcile the desires of the heart with the responsibiities of family life.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning family drama that explores the emotional consequences of loyalty, deception and jealousy. Stunned by her recently widowed father’s reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world—where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all.Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She’s met the love of her life, and they’re getting married with a baby on the way. That’s the moment her father makes his own jaw-dropping announcement: at sixty, he’s getting married as well, to Frankie’s best friend, Ariel, who is also pregnant, and due soon.As Frankie and Ariel struggle to adjust to their new relationship, Ariel’s estranged mother, Carlotta, returns after a decade-long absence. She claims to be a changed woman—but is she really? And where has she been all these years? Frankie is suspicious, and as Carlotta’s unpredictable behavior intensifies, Frankie must untangle the threads of the past to protect Ariel’s future—and her own."The characters and relationships are all smartly drawn, and the narrative is shot through with plenty of humor and scandal. Mitchard fans will lap this up."—Publishers Weekly