AUTHOR: Goudge, Eileen TITLE: Once in A Blue Moon Date Read: 03/12/14RATING: 4/BGENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS: Women's Fiction; 2009;Vanguard Press; 323 pgsSERIES/STAND ALONE: SATIME/PLACE: 2009; Blue Moon Bay, CACHARACTERS: Lindsay/bookstore owner; Kerrie-Ann; sisterFIRST LINES: "You get off on pawing through ladies' underwear?" Kerrie Ann sniped.COMMENTS: I like this author & hadn't read her in sometime -- I loved the Carson Springs trilogy. This was a nice read about 2 sisters who lived together until they were 11 & 3. They were fostered out to different homes when their mother was arrested on drug charges. Lindsay had the good fortune to be adopted by an older couple who never were able to have children. She had a great upbringing but was always in search of her little sister. Kerrie Anne did not have the luck that Lindsay had and bounced around from one set of foster parents to the next, she was out on her own as a teenager. She had a child w/ her live-in boyfriend who left shortly after their daughter was born. At this point Kerrie Ann was involved in drugs and lost custody of her daughter. This was enough to get her on the road to recovery. She got a lawyer to help her and he recommended getting help from family. She didn't know she had any until he had looked into her earlier records & found her sister. Almost 30 years later they reunite and needless to say there are many bumps in the road to forming a sibling relationship. A nice story. Great author - have read all her books! Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls’ mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care.Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect with her sister. The owner of a bookstore in the sleepy California seaside town of Blue Moon Bay, she was lucky enough to have been adopted by a loving couple. Unbeknownst to her, Kerrie Ann has suffered a very different life. Bounced from one foster home to the next, she ran away as a teenager before becoming a drug-addicted single mother. Now, newly sober, Kerrie Ann is fighting to regain custody of the little girl who was taken from her.
What do You think about Once In A Blue Moon (2009)?
It was an ok book, I wasn't a huge fan of it although it had it's moments.
—Virgin_Killer
Another wonderful Eileen Goudge with great characters.
—Kat
First read of Eileen. Good story.Library kindle loan
—Nyah
entertaining, light reading, good change for a while
—kingdome
