(Random House, $34.99)
If bestselling novelist Jacquelyn oitchard ever runs out of inspiration, I think she’ll be alright – she has the best story ever right in her own back yard.
Back in the ’90s, penniless and widowed with four children to support, she wrote what would become the first of oprah’s famous book club picks, propelling her novel, The Deep End of the ocean, to the number one slot around the world.
She went on to remarry, have three more children, and was on the brink of adopting two more when she found out that all her money had been swindled in a toxic Ponzi scheme and she was, once more, penniless. only now she had seven children.
What were she and her husband supposed to do about the two deprived little Ethiopian girls waiting on the other side of the world to come and join their rough and tumble family?
Common sense dictated that they pull the plug on the adoption, but,”We just felt two wrongs didn’t make for a good night’s sleep,” she wrote in Parade magazine.
Now she has nine children.
For that, I will buy her books forever.
Her new book is a sequel to The Deep End of the ocean. In that book Beth Cappadora turns her back for a moment and her three-year-old son Ben is abducted only to be discovered nine years later living almost around the block.
No Time To Wave Goodbye catches up with the Cappadoras 13 years later when Beth’s eldest son Vincent is still trying to make up for the fact that it was he who let his little brother’s hand go all those years before.
But redemption is not as close as it seems when Vincent unwittingly plunges his family back into the struggle of a lifetime. And they thought they’d already won that.
Part thriller, almost, and part family drama, you don’t need to have read the first book to appreciate the second, but you should anyway. Just think what it must cost to feed a family of 11!
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