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A Little Ray of Sunshine

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Wait time: About 4 weeks

Brought to you by Penguin.
An emotional and heart-warming novel from the bestselling author of TikTok sensation Pack up the Moon.

A kid walks into your bookstore and... guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise!
And a huge surprise it is.
It's a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. Until he secretly arranged a vacation to Cape Cod so he could meet his birth mother... without a word to her.
It's also a surprise to Harlow, the woman who secretly placed him for adoption so many years ago. She has built a quiet life, running a bookstore with her grandfather, and is happily single... though she can't help gravitating toward Grady Byrne, an old friend who has moved back to town, three-year-old daughter in tow, and no wife in the picture.
When Matthew walks into Harlow's store, she faints. Monica panics. And all their assumptions about what being a parent really means explode...
This summer will be full of more surprises as both their families are redefined...and as both women learn that for them, there's no limit to a mother's love.
'A raw and genuine look at motherhood, A Little Ray of Sunshine is a lovely ode to love in all of its many forms, family lost and found' Ashley Poston, author of The Dead Romantics
©2023 Kristan Higgins (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrators Xe Sands, Laural Merlington, and Jeannie Sheneman inhabit an assortment of ordinary people who are trying to understand their world and themselves. Bookstore owner Harlow secretly had a baby when she was 17. She gave him up to a loving couple, SanJay and Monica Patel. Now, eighteen years later, Harlow's son, Matthew, walks into her bookstore, and she faints. As Harlow revisits the past, Sands's performance is heartbreakingly honest. Jeannie Sheneman portrays hurt, angry adoptive mother Monica with maternal fierceness, while Laural Merlington's Cynthia is top-notch, never missing a snarky nuance. As various reactions to Matthew's appearance shake up Harlow's world, each narrator develops credible characters who discover various paths to love and other emotional connections. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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