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Daybreak
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Belva Plain
The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two families apart.
Laura a...more
Laura a...more
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages
Published
March 9th 2011
by Dell
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This was better than I expected it to be, and I got caught up in the story and ramifications of babies switched at birth. This is a book that a reader friend gave me, and since it looked like the sort of book I don't usually read, I asked her what kind of a book it was. Her answer--it's just a Belva Plain. Not much of an answer if you don't have a frame of reference, but now that I've read it I can see that it serves. It's just a Belva Plain. There's drama, but not an absurd amount (though ...more
I haven't read a Belva Plain book in probably 4 decades but I picked up a used copy of Daybreak really cheap. I have been reading a lot of nonfiction and picked this up to read something different. This story gripped me right from the beginning and I finished it in a day and a half. Wow, did it have some twists that I never expected. The story line (babies switched at birth) has been done before but this one had some real punch. Read it. You'll see what I mean.
This book is about politics and racism/KKK with a few romances and a baby switching thrown in.....it was an easy read with some 'over the top' emotional seens by a 19 year old kid and his racist father.....Some of the things they talked about really angered me and I would get riled up because of their stupidity and nastiness......then I would take a deep breath and realize that it was just a book and that I live in a place and with people that choose to accept people for who they are......not wh...more
This is my first Belva Plain book, and I'll definitely be reading more. I like family-oriented stories, just like Jodi Picoult's, though I'm finding lately that Picoult's novels are very formulaic. I believe that writers really has some formula used in their stories, and that's fine so long that I am still excited to find out what's gonna happen in the end, rather than guessing it mid-story. Well as I've said, I'm gonna be reading more Belva Plain's...I'll see if her formula works. :)
I enjoyed this book very much!!!
BUT . . . it seems set at the end of the 50's, early 60's and yet the little boy Timmy is outside listening to his walkman. Walkman??? The walkman did not come out until the 80's and patented in the late 70's in Japan.
BUT . . . it seems set at the end of the 50's, early 60's and yet the little boy Timmy is outside listening to his walkman. Walkman??? The walkman did not come out until the 80's and patented in the late 70's in Japan.
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One of her earlier books, I picked it up at the library sale last summer. Always different and always an ending you don't expect, probably why I still enjoy reading her after all these years.
Interesting story about children switched at birth and the journey of acceptance everyone needed to make. It was a tad predictable, but in a good way. (i.e. Bud's farewell)
Very interesting story of children switched at birth, with one of them having a genetically passed condition. It also deals with prejudice and anti-semitism.
as i started reading this book, i realized that i read it once before.
loved it the second time.
again, who does not love belva plain.
loved it the second time.
again, who does not love belva plain.
I really liked the character of Laura in this book. She stayed strong despite her world crumbling around her.
I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK. IT HAD A LOT OF TWISTS AND TURNS AND DEALT WITH SOME VERY DIFFICLT SUBJECTS.
Excellent novel that shows that bigoty is what you think not who you are.
So so book. I liked the premis until it turned into a book about anti semitism. Expectation caused my opinion to not be as favorable as I would have liked.
Dragged a bit in the middle. But an okay read.
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if it's around and you're bored, read it.
My friend Carrie read this book and really liked it so she lent it to me. I wasn't reading anything of interest at the time, so I decided to give it a try. i don't know how or why, but this book really sucked me in and I cried, cursed and actually gasped at the end. Lets just say I didn't predict the ending.
Slow moving. There is a lot of different stories going on in this book and surprisingly they all do tie together in the end. I thought the ending was great and something I didn't expect at all. Would've been better if the middle wasn't so boring, I almost stopped reading.
NOTE: I READ THE READERS DIGEST CONDENSED VERSION (1994, vol 5). The book was entertaining and held my attention; I read it the few weeks before school when I had much free time. It was on my bookshelf, bought by my interior decorator because of the color.
One of the worst books I've ever read.
I can't think of anything positive to say.
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