Eileen Goudge

In a touching story praised for its vibrant characters, ONCE IN A BLUE MOON’s Miss Honey Love, with her copper curls, tight clothes and manicured nails, stands out from the crowd. The one-time caretaker and current roommate of reunited sisters Lindsay and Kerrie Ann, Miss Honey is quick with a hot cup of tea from her special tea set when the sisters need comfort or just simply some time to think. The winner of Eileen’s November contest can carve away the same kind of special moments with loved ones with her own scarlet Nightingale Tea for Two Set and a copy of ONCE IN A BLUE MOON (Vanguard Hardcover, October 2009). Two great prizewinners will each receive a book from Eileen’s backlist.

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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.

Neither sister’s expectations are met when they’re finally reunited. But as the two sisters engage in the fiercest battles of their lives, they are at last drawn together despite their differences, restoring belief in the unshakable bond of family.

"A touching story with wide appeal, Goudge's novel is a sharp example of dysfunctional family fiction."—Publishers Weekly

". . . the journey of how all this happens, how the characters interact, fight and love, how true it all seems to real life - that's the magic behind this book."
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