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The Dream Daughter: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Diane Chamberlain (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 7,278 ratings
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New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a thrilling, mind-bending novel about one mother's journey to save her child.

When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970, and she is told that nothing can be done to help her child. But her brother-in-law, a physicist with a mysterious past, tells her that perhaps there is a way to save her baby. What he suggests is something that will shatter every preconceived notion that Carly has. Something that will require a kind of strength and courage she never knew existed. Something that will mean an unimaginable leap of faith on Carly's part.

And all for the love of her unborn child.

The Dream Daughter is a rich, genre-spanning, breathtaking novel about one mother's quest to save her child, unite her family, and believe in the unbelievable. Diane Chamberlain pushes the boundaries of faith and science to deliver a novel that you will never forget.

Praise for The Dream Daughter:

"Chamberlain writes with supernatural gifts...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

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Praise for The Dream Daughter:

"Chamberlain writes with supernatural gifts...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

"Endearingly human...You will want to share this book with friends so you can all experience it togther." --Suzanne Lucey, Page 158 Books

"Spellbinding...vivid...the ride of your life." --Samantha Flynn, Quail Ridge Books

Praise for Diane Chamberlain:

"Secrets, intrigue, mystery, love, forgiveness, and drama--it's all here. And it is riveting. Chamberlain's latest novel demands the reader to race, yet savor, the journey to the finale." --Library Journal on The Stolen Marriage

"A multilayered, poignant novel." --Booklist on Pretending to Dance

"Chamberlain's powerful story is a page-turner to the very end." -Library Journal on The Silent Sister

"A story of redemption, paranoia, and the power of shared bonds, The Silent Sister is a powerful and thrilling novel...Tautly paced and emotionally driven." -Booklist on The Silent Sister

About the Author

DIANE CHAMBERLAIN is the international bestselling author of over twenty novels, including the bestselling Necessary Lies and Pretending to Dance. She lives in North Carolina with her partner, photographer John Pagliuca, and her shelties, Keeper and Cole.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079DW36TK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press (October 2, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3030 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 381 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Diane Chamberlain is the New York Times, USA Today and (London) Sunday Times best-selling author of 27 novels. The daughter of a school principal who supplied her with a new book almost daily, Diane quickly learned the emotional power of story. Although she wrote many small “books” as a child, she didn’t seriously turn to writing fiction until her early thirties when she was waiting for a delayed doctor’s appointment with nothing more than a pad, a pen, and an idea. She was instantly hooked.

Diane was born and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey and lived for many years in both San Diego and northern Virginia. She received her master’s degree in clinical social work from San Diego State University. Prior to her writing career, she was a hospital social worker in both San Diego and Washington, D.C, and a psychotherapist in private practice in Alexandria, Virginia, working primarily with adolescents.

More than two decades ago, Diane was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which changed the way she works: She wrote two novels using voice recognition software before new medication allowed her to get back to typing. She feels fortunate that her arthritis is not more severe and that she’s able to enjoy everyday activities as well as keep up with a busy travel schedule.

Diane lives in North Carolina with her significant other, photographer John Pagliuca, and their odd but lovable Shetland Sheepdog, Cole.

Please visit Diane's website at www.dianechamberlain.com for her event schedule and for more information on her newest novel, Big Lies in a Small Town, as well as a complete list of her books.

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A good story!
The Dream Daughter is full of hard choices, good intentions, and unbelievable outcomes.The story begins with Caroline Grant in the 1960's. She’s a physical therapist working in a hospital when she’s assigned a new patient to her schedule. The patient, Hunter Poole has not connected with anybody and they think he has sustained his injuries when he tried to commit suicide by jumping from a three-story building. When he sees her, he immediately points at her and tells her that he wants her as his physical therapist and he will do whatever she wants him to do.Caroline will never know how this meeting will impact her life in the future.A few years later, Carly is now Caroline Sears and she has recently become a widow. Her husband Joe has died in Vietnam and she has recently discovered that she’s pregnant. A bittersweet moment that soon becomes a nightmare when her unborn baby is diagnosed with a possible problem with the aortic valve.In the 1970’s there is nothing to do for her baby. Her unborn daughter will probably die soon after being delivered. Caroline is devastated by the news. Then, her brother in law, Hunter, tells her he has a solution but it will require a leap of faith by Carly. At first, Caroline is skeptical, angry and worried that he's going crazy but when he proves he can do it, she knows she has to take the chance at a miracle.The Dream Daughter shows a mother who's willing to sacrifice anything for the life of her child. I knew Diana Chamberlain was not going to disappoint me with her storytelling. I liked all her main characters especially Caroline and Hunter. Caroline was determined to help her unborn baby and do whatever was necessary to give her a chance at a normal life.Cliffhanger: No4/5 Fangs
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kay
5.0 out of 5 stars another great book by Diane Chamberlain
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024
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This book is different but it ended up being so good! I wasn’t sure that I was going to like it at first but after getting in to it just a bit, I couldn’t put it down!
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Joy
4.0 out of 5 stars Great story about how far you will go to save your child.
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
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I really enjoy all of Diane Chamberlain’s books, and this one was no exception. She manages to talk about time travel in a way that seems believable, and it’s a story about love and family, and in particular the love parents have for their kids. I was rooting for all of the characters and couldn’t wait to see how the author resolved the plot line. Great read!
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Nicole K
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2018
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I have been obsessed with Diane Chamberlain book since 2014. So far I’ve read 20 of her books including this one. I follow Diane on Facebook and I knew that her next book was going to be a time travel novel. I was extremely nervous. She had never written anything with a this kind of element before and I had no idea how it was going to work. I’m not a huge sci-fi fan and time travel can often can be confusing. Going into this book I thought this book was going to be a big flop for me. Boy was I wrong.

This book is addicting! I couldn’t stop reading! I’m a third grade teacher and most school nights I’m lucky if I read anything. I read this whole book in one sitting on a school night. If that doesn’t say everything already, keep reading this review. The pages just melt away like butter. They are so easy to take in and Diane includes so many elements that make you want to keep reading to find out what is going to happen next. So many times, I kept saying “One more chapter” because I had chores around the house to do. Well one more chapter turned into reading the whole book. I couldn’t put it down.

The characters and settings were really unique. It was interesting to see how characters translated or changed based off of the time frame they were set in or transitioned to. It was obvious when we had a 1970s character in a present like time frame or a present time frame character in the 1970s. It just showed how good of a writer Diane Chamberlain is. When we were in 2001, I felt transported back to when I was 11 and what the world was like then. I found myself really caring for and empathizing with the characters and freaking out whenever events would occur for them.

The sci-fi elements made me the most nervous going into this book. I was scared they would either be too confusing, unrealistic, and not done in a way that I could understand. Diane Chamberlain wrote it this time travel in a very simple way that will let contemporary fans and sci-fi fans alike to access this type of story, which I really appreciated.

Overall Diane Chamberlain will stay one of my favorite authors. If you haven’t given her a chance yet, this is the one to try! I will continue to gloat and rave about her. My viewers of my youtube channel always ask me which one I recommend, and I will be recommending this one for a while! Can’t wait for her to come up with something else!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with an early copy of this book.
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Sara Freeman
5.0 out of 5 stars time travel and historical fiction
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023
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I thought for sure I would not enjoy this book…because time travel. Just not my normal jam. This book changed that. From the beginning I was hooked. The suspense was pretty constant and I could not predict what would happen next or how this would end. The author did a beautiful job of tying everything together. Great read and I look forward to finding more of her books.
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Nina A. Schwartz
3.0 out of 5 stars Just Pretty Good
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019
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I read The Dream Daughter on the recommendation of a friend, but was tempted to quit until halfway through the book. Till then, it was the sort of nothing novel you only keep reading in order to find out WHAT HAPPENS. There was little or no character development, especially missed in Myra and her teenage son. The plot read like: Then I did THIS, but THIS happened, and then THAT happened, etc. Finally, when I had about given up, the real story started, and the characters in it began to act like real people.
Caveats: It's a dead giveaway, when Carly goes to New York in 2001, that she will be affected by the strongest event of that year; you keep waiting for that particular shoe to drop. Also, futuristic anachronisms like "Seriously?" keep popping up in Carly's speech, which any good editor should have caught.
You know, from the type of book it is, that it will all turn out all right. I give the author good marks for NOT making this story a romance, and for NOT sending her heroine into the past. Vintage Season, Time And Again, Outlander, City On The Edge Of Forever, and countless others haves covered that ground; there have been all too many inferior others. It's okay for Carly to have a baby in the future because we're constantly messing with the future anyway.
So I would classify this as a COSY book, despite its constantly dire first half. I would have liked Myra and the young Hunter to come into the story more. Hunter in particular would have been a good choice to communicate with both future and past.
Some questions about time travel remain, that ought to be explored. When you leave the present and travel in time, why must you return at a later time? Why can't you return before you started? Does the time you spent "away" need to correspond in some way to time elapsed in the present? And, particular to this book: If anyplace 15 feet off the ground makes a good portal, why aren't high divers, ski jumpers, suicides, etc., constantly disappearing? But this is not the book for that. You'd need a really thoughtful SF writer like the Arthur C. Clarke, C.L. Moore, or Isaac Asimov.
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Beverley Beese
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous read!
Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2023
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Intriguing premise and exciting story with lots of twists. I couldn’t put it down.
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JaneyG
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and thought provoking
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2024
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Took a while to understand where this story was going. Loved that Carly was naive but continued her search for her daughter - proof of a mother's love. Tearful and unexpected outcome at the end of this story made it worth the read.
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charlotte
1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written time travel
Reviewed in Italy on February 26, 2022
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False adverting no mention of time travel before purchase. Rip off, terribly written.
The order was good quality though, no damage to book and delivered quickly.
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Fernanda
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book.
Reviewed in Mexico on July 2, 2020
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Great great book. Love the story, it made me cry. I loved this book. 100% recommend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent read!
Reviewed in Australia on February 20, 2019
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I have to admit, I have loved every single book of Diane Chamberlain - and yes, I've read them all! This book is no exception. The topic Diane chooses is always well thought out, never black and white. What I really admire about this writer is her ability to make me think. Why do I believe what I do? What might it feel like to be 'on the other side of the fence'?
Termination of pregnancy (abortion) is never an easy topic to discuss, but it must be done. Until we examine why we think what we do, and are honest enough with ourselves, we will never be able to understand someone else's point of view. It is far too easy to make our own decision and expect that everyone else should follow what WE think.
A very thought provoking book, and I could not put it down until the last page, and then I purchased the recommended texts as well!
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