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The Real Mother

By Judith Michael

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780060599300

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Book Description

Love is never the end of the story,
only the begining.

Mack Hayden, volatile and dangerous, shows up, all smiles, on Sara's doorstep. Sara has been struggling to build a new life for herself and her ten-year-old brother Doug and teenage sisters Carrie and Abby, after she was forcContinue

Love is never the end of the story,
only the begining.

Mack Hayden, volatile and dangerous, shows up, all smiles, on Sara's doorstep. Sara has been struggling to build a new life for herself and her ten-year-old brother Doug and teenage sisters Carrie and Abby, after she was forced to give up her dreams and come home to Chicago to take care of them.

Now Mack, the brother who had abandoned them three years earlier, is threatening to undercut everything she does. Swinging dangerously from kindness to mystery to cruelty, he begins to win over the children with expensive gifts and fascinating stories, challenging Sara's efforts to keep the family together.

With events at home and at work seeming out of control, Sara desperately needs an ally. She finds one in Reuben Lister, a transplanted New Yorker, lonely and guarding his own secrets. Dealing with both the past and the present, Reuben and Sara discover a closeness neither has known before, as they find for themselves what truly makes a family.

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  • The Real Mother By Judith Michael

    What makes a mother? And how do families work through challenges that have the power to rip them apart forever? In Judith Michael's new novel, motherhood comes by proxy for Sara Elliott when she takes over raising her three younger siblings after the ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - THE REAL MOTHER by Judith Michael

    Three years ago Sara withdrew from Columbia's medical school and returned home to Chicago to become a surrogate mother to her younger siblings. Their mother, Tess, had suffered a debilitating stroke that left her helpless, speechless, and confined to ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 512 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0060599308
  • ISBN-13: 9780060599300
  • Publisher: Avon
  • Pub date: Dec 01, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1097 mm x 645 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Audio CD
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