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Excellant book about relationships with mothers, unconditional love and friendship. A husband leaves his wife after learning she's carring and keeping a child with Rhetts syndrome. She raises the child alone with help from her mother and brother-in-law doctor. Easy read - couldn't put it down.
Good story, loved the characters and the intimate look into their complicated emotions. Excellent read.
great book- i read one of hers and went out to find the other 6 i have immediately.
I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend this book to everyone. If you have not read Luanne Rice yet don't start with this book. It was not her best but it is still worth reading.
I really enjoyed reading this book. The only problem that i had with it was that it stopped all the sudden and i wanted to know what happen.
The story of an extrodinary woman who raises an exceptional child on her own after her husband left her before the child was born. Blinded by despair it takes some time to understand that there are men in this world who care and are willing to wait. Luanne Rice is an excellent stort teller.
Good story about a single mother with a disabled daughter.
a novel of mothers, daughthers and the courage to love again.
Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart" (Tami Hoag, author of A Thin Dark Line). Her stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be—and that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness. Follow the Stars Home is just such a novel: a story of poignancy and heartbreak, grace and courage.
Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her daughter was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea, leaving Dianne with a newborn—almost alone.
It was Tim's brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother's wife. But one of the many hard choices Dianne has made is to close her heart toward any man—especially one named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that love comes in many forms and can be received with as much grace as it is given.
As lyrical and moving as the poetry of nature, Follow the Stars Home is a miracle of storytelling that will take your breath away. If words alone can dare us to confront our fears and to choose joy over sorrow, then Luanne Rice's magnificent novel is a benediction and a call to celebrate our lives.
Being a good mother is never simple: each day brings new choices and challenges. For Dianne Robbins, being a devoted single mother has resulted in her greatest joy and her darkest hours. Weeks before her daughter was born, she and her husband, Tim McIntosh, received the news every parent fears. Tim had not reckoned on their child being anything less than perfect, and abruptly fled to a solitary existence on the sea, leaving Dianne with a newborn—almost alone.
It was Tim's brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her exceptional daughter. Throughout years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother's wife. But one of the many hard choices Dianne has made is to close her heart toward any man—especially one named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them all that love comes in many forms and can be received with as much grace as it is given.
As lyrical and moving as the poetry of nature, Follow the Stars Home is a miracle of storytelling that will take your breath away. If words alone can dare us to confront our fears and to choose joy over sorrow, then Luanne Rice's magnificent novel is a benediction and a call to celebrate our lives.
Sometimes we find the family we are always meant to have.
Book Cover: Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart." Her stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be - and that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness.
Abandoned by her husband, Tim NcIntosh, before their daughter was born, Dianne Robbins has spent eleven years caring for her exceptional child's every need - almost alone. It was Tim's brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her dauther, Julia. Throughout years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother's wife. But Dianne has closed her heart toward men - especially men named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them that love comes in many forms, and can be received with as much grace as it is given.
As lyrical and moving as the poetry of nature, Follow the Stars Home is a miracle of storytelling that will take your breath away.
Abandoned by her husband, Tim NcIntosh, before their daughter was born, Dianne Robbins has spent eleven years caring for her exceptional child's every need - almost alone. It was Tim's brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, who stood by Dianne and her dauther, Julia. Throughout years of waiting, watching, and caring, Alan hid his love for his brother's wife. But Dianne has closed her heart toward men - especially men named McIntosh. It will take a very special twelve-year-old to remind them that love comes in many forms, and can be received with as much grace as it is given.
As lyrical and moving as the poetry of nature, Follow the Stars Home is a miracle of storytelling that will take your breath away.
A wonderful read, heartwrenching, but wonderful all the same.
Good read
Another moving realistic book by Luanne Rice. Abandoned by her husband before her special needs daughter is born; this is the story of an enduring love that her daughter shows that love comes in many forms, and can be received with as much grace as it is given.
Wonderful book, I love this author. I have read almost all her books. 1-5 I give it a 5
Good read!
LOVE this book and author!
Abandoned by her husband Tim before their daughter was born, Diane has spent 11 years caring for the exceptional child's every need, almost alone, except for the town pediatrican, Tim's brother, in love with Diane.....
With a startling sensitivity for human tragedy and the ability of the heart to heal, Luanne Rice has written a moving account of one woman's internal journey in Follow the Stars Home. Married young to Tim McIntosh, a passionate and charismatic fisherman with a troubled heart, Dianne Robbins expects a future full of happiness, security, and love. But when tests reveal that their unborn baby is severely disabled, Tim sails off for calmer waters. Faced with the responsibilities of raising her daughter Julia, Dianne finds support in Tim's brother Alan and her own mother Lucinda.
A decade later, Dianne has mastered the demands of nursing Julia and swears her life is completely fulfilled by these tasks. When Alan introduces Amy Brooks, a young and troubled girl, into Dianne's life, Dianne finds her heart opening and stretching in new and positive ways. As her mother Lucinda explains, "The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action." And Dianne struggles over the choice to love again.
A decade later, Dianne has mastered the demands of nursing Julia and swears her life is completely fulfilled by these tasks. When Alan introduces Amy Brooks, a young and troubled girl, into Dianne's life, Dianne finds her heart opening and stretching in new and positive ways. As her mother Lucinda explains, "The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action." And Dianne struggles over the choice to love again.
. the back page of this book has one corner bentbut still in very good shape. Excellent book .
What a wonderful book. It had good times and bad and was just a great feel good story.
very good reading
Anything by Luanne Rice is a good story and a tearjerker. This one is very good and has a good ending. Not all of her books have a happy ending but this one does.
Abandoned by her husband, Tim mcIntosh, before their daughter was born, Dianne Robbvins has spent eleven years caring for her exceptional child's need - almost alone. Tim's brother, Alan, the town pediatrician, has always been secretly in love with his brother's wife and continues as the concerned "uncle" until the truth is revealed......great story, great ending