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Light of the Moon
Author: Luanne Rice

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Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 9780553805116 - ISBN-10: 0553805118
Publication Date: 1/29/2008
Pages: 400

Book Description:
Spurred by her mother's dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family's history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain, seeking only time alone to dig deeply into the personal archaeology of her own life.

American-born Grey Dempsey had come to the Camargue as a journalist, fell in love with a celebrated Romany rider, and suffered a devastating loss of his own. Now he operates a ranch as he struggles to raise his spirited but troubled young daughter who, after a terrible night years ago, fears the horses she once loved.

Within their bittersweet private orbit, in the midst of the endless silvered marshlands, Susannah Connolly will find a part of herself she hadn't known she had lost. And here she will find herself embraced by a circle of strong and passionate women bound together by their abiding faith in the legendary slave-saint Susannah seeks and in the miracles she is said to still perform for those who believe. Yet old secrets swirl within the fog-shrouded landscape, betrayals that may be beyond the power of any saint, or supplicant, to repair.

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Adrienne V. (Adriennevh) wrote on 7/9/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I have always enjoyed Luanne Rice novels. She usually does such good “beach reads”. This one while very good I would not classify as a beach read. Although it is a bit intriguing it misses the mark of mysterious. A young woman loses her mother but makes good on her promise to “find Sarah and thank her”. Sarah is a Romany saint in France said to have travelled there with the 3 Marias. Of course while there she falls in love, but it can't be that cut and dried, there has to be a problem of course. His ex-wife, his troubled daughter, her ex-boyfriend/partner. There is some French in the book that is not translated and leaves the reader to figure it out. Some I could some I didn't care/need to. I am not big on description. Honestly I don't care what color her dress is or how it plays nicely off the colors of the flowers in the garden. I skipped over a lot of this in this book. And I don't believe I missed a thing. This was a good quick read (3 nights). With of course a happy ending.

Janet R. (taryndesigns) wrote on 6/5/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

One of the best books by this author. It deals with a woman and a young girl both coping with the grief of losing their mothers in different ways. Wonderful foray into the colorful Gypsy world. Just a beautiful, heartwarming story. I couldn't put it down.

ANDRE' E. J. (Expeditious) wrote on 2/5/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Held my breath at the first page - expelled it only on the last page!!
I did not want to breathe for fear of missing a word!
Bravo - again - Ms Rice!! Wonderful story and always, unsuspected insight to another culture of our facinating world of human beings. BRAVO!!!


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Sheila C. (FabN46) wrote on 11/29/2008...


Luanne Rice at her best! This one had me so mesmorized I finished it in one day (laundry? errands? Forget it!). Loved it!


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