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It was published in the year 2006 by the mira books publishing house. Molly and her husband, aidan, involuntarily childless attorneys in san diego, are going through the fraught process of qualifying to adopt. Aidan and i had done nothing else to the room to prepare for our daughter, and i. Chamberlain writes knowledgeably about seeing a family member confront a degenerative illness, the power. I now wonder how i will ever be satisfied with another author. Some of her most popular books include necessary lies, the silent sister, the secret life of ceecee wilkes, and the keeper of the light trilogy. She lives in north carolina with her partner, photographer john pagliuca, and. I didnt get a chance to read it but discovered chamberlain had over two dozen novels to her name and many many fans. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading pretending to dance. Pretending to dance by diane chamberlain, the bestselling author of the silent sister, is a fascinating and deftlywoven novel, that reveals the devastating power of. Diane chamberlain is the new york times, usa today and sunday times bestselling author of 30 novels published in more than twenty languages. Mollys story is told by alternating between her life in 2014 and the summer of 1990.
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