Book Review and Tour: Once In A Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge

Title: Once In A Blue Moon
Author: Eileen Goudge
Publisher: Vanguard Press; Reprint edition
Publication Date: July 27, 2010
Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN: 978-1593156145
Genre: Fiction

About the Book:

While she was growing up, twelve-year-old Lindsay had to look after three-year-old Kerrie Ann. When their mother was arrested and imprisoned for drugs, the girls entered foster care.

Nearly thirty years later, Lindsay owns a bookstore in the California seaside town of Blue Moon Bay. Adopted by a loving couple, she’s still trying to reconnect with her long-lost sister. Unbeknownst to her, Kerrie Ann has led a very different life, bounced from one foster home to the next. Now, newly sober, Kerrie Ann is fighting to regain custody of her own little girl.

When the sisters are finally reunited, the two very different women clash. As Lindsay and Kerrie Ann engage in the fiercest battles of their lives—while each embarks on a journey of the heart with the unlikeliest of men—they are drawn together.

My Review:

Once In A Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge is the story of two completely different women who used to be loving sisters, but circumstance and time intervened, separating them.  When Kerrie Ann meets with an attorney about regaining custody of her daughter Bella, she is informed that she has an older sister who lives in Blue Bay Moon.  Kerrie Ann wonders why her older sister, Lindsay, never tried to contact her and if it would even be worth the trouble to meet with her.   Goudge describes the two women and their separate lives and how they came to be the women they are and what their futures hold.   Once In A Blue Moon is a story of nature verses nurture, family, love, and loss.  The story line moves along in a fairly predictable pattern and while I was not particularly interested in either of the main characters as adults, Miss Honi Love being the exception, I think other readers who enjoy this genre might be more invested than I was in the sisters’ lives.  I would recommend Once In A Blue Moon to those who enjoy touching, happy ending style novels.

About the Author:

A native of northern California who now lives in Manhattan, Eileen Goudge is the New York Times bestselling author of 15 novels including Woman in Red and The Diary, 32 young adult novels, numerous short stories and magazine articles and one cookbook. When she isn’t writing, Goudge enjoys baking for friends and neighbors.

Eileen’s website.
Once In A Blue Moon website.
Read an excerpt from the book.
Follow the Reading Group Guide.
A Q & A with Eileen.

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I received a complimentary copy of Once In A Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge from TLC Book Tours to be a part of this tour and offer my honest review of the book. Receiving a complimentary copy in no way reflected my review of aforementioned book.

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