Jacquelyn Mitchard

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Jacquelyn Mitchard’s first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was named by USA Today as one of the ten most influential books of the past 25 years – second only to the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (but second by a long shot, it must be said.)

The Deep End of the Ocean was chosen as the first novel in the book club made famous by the TV host Oprah Winfrey, and transformed into a feature film produced by and starring Michelle Pfeiffer.

All of Mitchard’s novels have been greater or lesser bestsellers – and include The Most Wanted, A Theory of Relativity, Twelve Times Blessed, The Breakdown Lane and Cage of Stars. Critics have praised them for their authentic humanity and skilful command of story. Readers identify because they see reflected...more

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Books by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Average rating: 3.60 · 35,247 ratings · 2,550 reviews · 31 distinct works

	The Deep End of the Ocean (Cappadora Family, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 24,262 ratings — published 1995 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Cage of Stars 3.62 avg rating — 2,374 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions	My rating:
	A Theory Of Relativity 3.57 avg rating — 1,206 ratings — published 2001 — 30 editions	My rating:
	The Breakdown Lane 3.48 avg rating — 1,192 ratings — published 2005 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Still Summer 3.22 avg rating — 1,065 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions	My rating:
	The Most Wanted 3.56 avg rating — 903 ratings — published 1337 — 15 editions	My rating:
	No Time to Wave Goodbye 3.17 avg rating — 896 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	My rating:
	All We Know of Heaven: A Novel 3.68 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Midnight Twins (Midnight Twins, # 1) 3.33 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Twelve Times Blessed 3.23 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions	My rating:

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Series by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Cappadora Family (2 books)
by Jacquelyn Mitchard

3.64 avg rating — 25,158 ratings

Midnight Twins (3 books)
by Jacquelyn Mitchard

3.38 avg rating — 874 ratings

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“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard

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“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Breakdown Lane

tags: sleeping

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“When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard

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