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Light of the Moon

Light of the Moon, February 2008
by Luanne Rice

Bantam
Featuring: Susannah Connolly
400 pages
ISBN: 0553805118
EAN: 9780553805116
Hardcover
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"A mystical and touching story of people pulling their lives together after experiencing great loss."

Fresh Fiction Review

Light of the Moon
Luanne Rice

Reviewed by Kay Quintin
Posted January 14, 2008

Women's Fiction

As anthropologist Susannah Connolly boards a plane leaving Boston, she escapes a surprise birthday party in her honor. Susannah has recently lost her mother to cancer and, per her mother's last request, is visiting France. This is where her parents believed her conception was a miracle due to their visiting the statue of Sarah, a slave girl, and a mysterious saint who has extraordinary powers.

When Susannah arrives in France, she's rescued by Grey, a lonely man with a 13-year-old daughter, Sari, who's been traumatized as a result of her mother's desertion. The French Camargue is known for the famous white horses that fascinate Susannah and binds her even more to Sari. The luscious landscape of France and spellbinding marshes aid Susannah and Grey in falling in love as they strive to find the path that will lead Sari back to them.

Sari is a beautiful child who has the ability to reveal the fear in all of us. The love Susannah and Grey share penetrates Sari's fears and shows that anything is possible if you have faith and belief. This is a very touching, heartfelt and mystical story about three people pulling their lives back together after great losses and having the ability to carry on as stronger, loving individuals.

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SUMMARY

Spurred by her mother’s dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family’s history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain, seeking only time alone to dig deeply into the personal archaeology of her own life.

American- born Grey Dempsey had come to the Camargue as a journalist, fell in love with a celebrated Romany rider, and suffered a devastating loss of his own. Now he operates a ranch as he struggles to raise his spirited but troubled young daughter who, after a terrible night years ago, fears the horses she once loved.

Within their bittersweet private orbit, in the midst of the endless silvered marshlands, Susannah Connolly will find a part of herself she hadn’t known she had lost. And here she will find herself embraced by a circle of strong and passionate women bound together by their abiding faith in the legendary slave-saint Susannah seeks and in the miracles she is said to still perform for those who believe. Yet old secrets swirl within the fog-shrouded landscape, betrayals that may be beyond the power of any saint, or supplicant, to repair.


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