The Good Dream

THE GOOD DREAM

ISBN:978-0312-36777-0

by

Donna VanLiere

Book will release July, 2012

also available on CD 978-1-4272-2187-2 and as an e-book 978-1-250-01150-3

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publication date: 7/3/2012

Edition description: First Edition

Edition number: 1

Pages: 320

READ THE FIRST CHAPTER HERE!!

From The New York Times bestselling author comes a poignant, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel about an unlikely path to motherhood, and of two lost souls healing each other

1950 Tennessee, a time and place that straddles the past and present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town (though she’s only in her early thirties) and she takes that label with good humor and a grain of salt. Ever since her parents passed away, she has hidden her loneliness behind a fierce independence and a claim of not needing anyone. But her mother’s death hit her harder than anyone suspects and Ivorie wonders if she will be alone forever.

When she realizes that someone has been stealing vegetables from her garden—a feral, dirty-faced boy who disappears into the hills—something about him haunts Ivorie. She can’t imagine what would make him desperate enough to steal and eat from her garden. But what she truly can’t imagine is what the boy faces, each day and night, in the filthy lean-to hut miles up in the hills. Who is he? How did he come to live in the hills? Where did he come from? And, more importantly, can she save him? As Ivorie steps out of her comfort zone to uncover the answers, she unleashes a firestorm in the town—a community that would rather let secrets stay secret.

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MY THOUGHTS:

This is Donna's first novel but not her first time at writing, she brought happiness to a lot of people with her "CHRISTMAN HOPE" series and now enjoy her first full length novel as I have.

Ivorie Walker is a young woman in her late twenties and unmarried.  She works at the school library but her mother was always trying to find her a husband as both her parents were up in years.  "This really relates to me as my mother was forty-five when I was born.  I was the tenth child for her"  Ivorie alone with her family  live in Morgan Hill Tennessee a small community about seventy miles from Knoxville but somewhere she had never been.  She has six brothers and all are married with families.

Ivorie did not like any man that was thrown at her, she found something wrong with all of the ones that lived in their small community.  Her dad died in 1948 and Mother was crippled with arthritis so she did most of the work in the gardens and house.  When Ivorie turned thirty her Mother passed away in January and now the house was too quite and cold.

Then there is the Boy that is being treated very bad at his home and he has some terrible dreams that he is drowning and a woman always pulls him out.  He does not know her but she always rescues him.  Someday he will get away from that shack and the man that treats him worst than a dog.

The boy meets Ivorie and finds himself into more trouble from "THE MAN" than ever before.  He is beaten and cursed at for going down past the river.

This book is so interesting that you will not want to put it down and that is why I read it so fast.  I wanted to see what the next page holds.  This book will be out in July so be sure to pick up a copy or pre-order one, you will be so glad you did.

I want to thank the author Donna VanLiere for sending me this free advanced copy for my review.