Summer's Child & Summer of Roses

Nova Scotia Summer #1-2

by Luanne Rice

An exclusive 2-in-1 Book Club Edition

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Canada

482 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Luanne Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-eight novels, translated into thirty languages. Rice often writes about love, family, nature, and the sea. Most recently she has written thrillers, including one based on a murder that affected her family. She received the 2014 Connecticut Governor’s Arts Award for excellence and lifetime achievement in the Literary Arts category.
Connecticut College awarded Rice an honorary degree and invited her to donate her papers to the College’s Special Collections Library. They are archived in the Luanne Rice Collection.
Rice has also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from St. Joseph University in West Hartford, Conn.
Several of Rice's novels have been adapted for television. Her monologue for the play Motherhood Out Loud premiered at Hartford Stage and has been performed Off-Broadway in NYC and at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
Rice is a Creative Affiliate of the Safina Center. She lives in southeastern Connecticut.

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good quick read where two books are combined in one edition. I learned about verbally and emotionally abused women in this book. LuAnn really describes the men who manipulate the women with realistic wording and action. Something I did not understand was the character development of the two little girls who seem very happy and alive since they left the abusive situation. And surprise...surprise women heal women and tow of the abused women married the same abuser!

[Edwina Book Anaconda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a delightful mix of mystery, thriller, and romance.
I thoroughly enjoyed it!

[ReadWithE · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5. Not really my kind of book but it grabbed me right away and kept me reading. Reminded me a bit of Cedar Cove.

[Julie Barrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Summer Child by Luanne Rice
This is the first story of Mara Jameson. She had gotten married and was pregnant. Then she just disappeared and years later no one had heard of her again.
Patrick Murphy is the retired state police detective who is intrigued by the reports of Maya and tries to track her down by clues left.
Her parents are dead and she had lived with her grandmother, Mauve. Mauve's best friend, Clara grew up together in the seaside town of Hubbard's Point.
At Cape Hawk Rose plays with Jessica and it's close to her birthday and she has high hopes of seeing the whale, Nanny who comes to visit her every summer.
Capt Hook is the local oceanographer and has a love interest in Lily
and captain of the ferry where he has an office near Rose's mom yarn shop where Rose's mom, Lily rented the store along with an apartment for them both.
Jessica can't even tell her best friend that her birthday is the same date as Roses cuz her dad might come find them and make them go back to live with him. She has bad dreams of what he did to a dog. She is now happy to be away from him where nobody knows them.
hate how the husband they ran away from uses the internet to get others to send him money and to trick her into sending a message under one of her alias names. He will be able to track down where she is now. Reminds me of one coming into an authors chat saying her daughter and
family had gotten burnt out of their home and she loves to read. Ended up getting the author to send her books and I'm thinking to myself what's wrong with the free library? Hope it didn't happen and I do hate scammers.
Cool to have all these various stories connected by just one person. Like how the stories are all told.
Love new things this book has taught me, pocket rosary also known as chapette, i've made these for nursing home.
Also pine needle pillows-how neat of an idea!
This book follows Rose's journey to better health.
There are just a few things that link this whole book and all the characters together. What a tale!


Summer of Roses Book 2 by Luanne Rice
Lily and her friend Liam are back in Hubbard Point, CT at her grandmother's house after she left to go to the hospital.
They arrived from Nova Scotia where Lily had hidden out for over 9 years.
Patrick Murphy is the detective who found her and informed her of her grandmother's illness.
Lily is afraid her husband, Edward will find out and come get their daughter from her.
Love reading about familiar treasured things: moonstones, flowers, sea life, sounds from the ocean, smells from the ocean Rose the little girl, thinks that the whale that grew up with her mom followed them to Canada to send them back home to be with her grandmother. They have tracking devices attaches and can be followed via the computer.
The needlecraft shop up where she ran to was being looked after for her by many of the people she was now friends with who had a similar liking to the craft.
One woman Jessica's mom, Marisa was waiting to hear from her sister, Sam who was in Peru to help others. They had a falling out a while ago and haven't contacted one another. Music also connected them and there was a musical fair in town.
The investigator, Patrick had found Lily and he also was introduced to Marisa and she called him when he was offshore in his boat in CT to ask him to find her sister. It might cause major problems so she told him not to find her in Peru. Then she played him their favorite song on the fiddle. He fell in love.
Lily's husband was evil, that's why she ran away to Canada. Lily thinks Edward had something to do with her grandmother being in the hospital also. She hoped she would come out of her coma so they could talk. Love hearing about the Ghost Hills as I've never experienced that nor the rogue waves that come with them.
Marisa and Lily share something in common that holds the key to the whole investigation.
And the big mystery of the dolphins needs to be solved...
Loved how they all are connected with one another.

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This goes from domestic abuse to romance and includes the courtroom in between. Little Rose has a heart defect that requires many operations from birth to 9 years old. Amazingly (even to oceanographer Liam) the 19-year-old white Beluga whale, named Nanny, followed them on their journey along the coast between Nova Scotia Canada and Rhode Island.

[writer...]

Delightful discovery of the Canadian location link with the MC moving to Nova Scotia and the positive lifechanging results. A hard story to read in parts yet beauty in family relational restoration and descriptive locations.

[Elaine cripe · Rating 4 out of 5]

first of many books that I have read Enjoyed very much and am looking forward to others

[Anita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice story

[Nancy Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as good as the Perfect Summer, but good.

[Laurel Bradshaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book Description of Summer's Child (from Amazon.com)
From Luanne Rice, the celebrated author of Beach Girls and many other New York Times bestsellers, comes this powerful novel of a mystery, a love affair, and a bond that cannot be broken set in a seaside town where miracles are made...

On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden–and was never seen again. Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant mother whose glowing smile had captured the heart of everyone who’d known her: Maeve Jameson, still mourning the loss of a granddaughter she had struggled to protect…Patrick Murphy, a dogged police detective obsessed with a vanished woman…and Lily Malone, drawn to the rugged beauty of the Nova Scotia coast and its promise of a new life.

Here Lily hopes to raise her nine-year-old daughter, Rose, far from the pain and loss of the past. Here she will meet a gifted scientist, Liam Neill, whose life is on a similar trajectory from heartbreak to hope. And before the season is over, Lily will find the magic that exists in people we love the best…the everyday miracles that can make the extraordinary happen anywhere.

[Lucy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have been in a major summertime rut. Even coming on Goodreads depresses me because it seems like everyone is reading, and reading well, and I either have no time, or attention span, because I just can't get through a book! In a desperate attempt to get back in the game, I checked out an old favorite, Luanne Rice, to see if I could get the novel reading juices flowing again.

Unfortunately, I picked up a two-for-one deal, and while the stories were connected, the whole effect was unsatisfying. I didn't want to start over when my thumbs told me I was halfway through. With that attitude, I felt annoyed when Rice told things over again, things she had just gotten done telling me in the first half of the book. So, this idea...this joining of half stories, gets a big ol' "meh" from me.

[Natalie Omer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fictional story about a woman who was in an abusive marriage. She found the courage to leave when her husband kept "accidentally" bumping into her making her fall while 8 months pregnant. She knew the only way to leave was to disappear. She changed her name and left her friends and grandmother, who raised her. She was eventually thought to be dead. It was a good book. A relatively clean, easy read...just a little too mushy, mushy for me....

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The second book in this 2 book series was the better of the two books. I didn't really care for how the author wrote the first book. She would start to tell you what the big secret was and then she'd stop. She did this a few times and I got frustrated with it. I wish she had gone a little more into a few of the other details, but over all, it was okay.

[Michele Snyder · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was 2 books in one, about the same charachters. The charachters were likeable. It was a story about women who escape from abusive relationships and how they move on. It had some interseting twists throughout.

[LueAnn Teague Vance · Rating 5 out of 5]

these books touched on a very important topic...domestic violence in all its forms. A man nor a woman has to hit you to be abuse. enjoyed the plot twist and turns in these books. great read and infirnative

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Started off a little flat, but then moved along. I was glad to have the second book already attached in the back. Overall a great story of how a woman, or women, overcome the monster abusers in their lives and move on.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sequel to Summer of Roses. See Summer of Roses.

[Xavy · Rating 4 out of 5]

great books---i love the message.

[Jyoti Singh · Rating 5 out of 5]

love love love...definately cant say it enough..get the whole summer series

[Agi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Baru baca yang summer's child aja sih. Lumayan menarik. Cerita yang mengajarkan cara survive dan mengajarkan keberanian untuk melepaskan diri.

[Francesca · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's really amazing!! Love it!! I want to read start on Summer of Roses! I really squeal with that.

[TheRLPL Rice Lake Public Library · Rating 5 out of 5]

Patron Review:
About two women, each with a child the same age, running from a sociopath husband. Written with such understanding and such love.

[Toni May]

a great book.