Full name: Pretending to Dance: A Novel

Author: Diane Chamberlain Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781250105011 9781250010742 1250105013 1250010748

Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She lives in San Diego with a husband she adores, and they are trying to adopt a baby because they can't have a child on their own. But the process of adoption brings to light many questions about Molly's past and her family-the family she left behind in North Carolina twenty years before. The mother she says is dead but who is very much alive. The father she adored and whose death sent her running from the small community of Morrison's Ridge. Her own birth mother whose mysterious presence in her family raised so many issues that came to a head. The summer of twenty years ago changed everything for Molly and as the past weaves together with the present story, Molly discovers that she learned to lie in the very family that taught her about pretending. If she learns the truth about her beloved father's death, can she find peace in the present to claim the life she really wants? Similar books: The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain Secret Lives by Diane Chamberlain Blueprints by Barbara Delinsky Girls in Trouble by Caroline Leavitt Somebody Else's Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde Beach Music by Pat Conroy The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Where We Belong by Catherine Ryan Hyde Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster True Places by Sonja Yoerg Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star