SOLVED. a married couple who has three young children and somehow one of them dies. It seems to me that it was an accident in the yard or house. The couple divorces. Later when the children are grown the couple reunites. [s]

[bookworm]

I first read this book in late 2006 early 2007 and don't think it was new then. It was about a married couple who has three young children and somehow one of them dies. It seems to me that it was an accident in the yard or house. The couple divorces. Later when the children are grown the couple reunites. The husband owns or runs a book store or a coffee shop.

[bookworm]

Hope someone else can help figure this out it is really bugging me! Thanks for reading!!

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Was it literary fiction or more mass market fiction? Did it seem to belong to a particular genre - chick lit, for example? Or was it just straight fiction? Do you remember anything about the cover?

[bookworm]

I don't remember the cover I think when the couple reunited it was during the Christmas season. It was a life book I want to say it was in the Romance/Drama category. I don't really know what chick lit is but from the sound of it that would be right since it was definitely a book for women. I don't think it was rare since someone had donated it to a work library cupboard.

[Kris]

One True Love by Barbara Freethy has some similar elements (divorced couple who lost a child, Christmas reunion, three children but they belong to her ex-sister-in-law).

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

bookworm wrote: "I don't remember the cover I think when the couple reunited it was during the Christmas season. It was a life book I want to say it was in the Romance/Drama category. I don't really know what chick lit is..."

I think Wikipedia has a really good definition:

Chick lit is genre fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly...... Although it sometimes includes romantic elements, chick lit is generally not considered a direct subcategory of the romance novel genre, because the heroine's relationship with her family or friends is often just as important as her romantic relationships.

[bookworm]

Thank you Kris and Lobstergirl, I am reading One True Love now. I could have forgotten some of the details over the years and will let you know if it's the same one.

[bookworm]

One True Love is not the one I'm looking for thought I posted on another sight and someone else remembers this book too and doesn't know the title or author either. Hope she remembers more details to help figure this one out I just paged through the book covers of the solved books (yes all of them) and didn't recognize any of them as this book though covers sometimes are updated..Thank you though Kris I do like One True Love so far...

[Kris]

Glad you're enjoying "One True Love". Never know what you'll discover in this group. :)

Btw, you might be interested in this Listopia:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[bookworm]

Thank You Kris, I would have never know this list existed, I'm still new to Goodreads

[bookworm]

After reading some other book descriptions I remembered more. The mom was a nurse at a hospital and something happens to her daughter and her husband can't get a hold of mom and brings daughter to the ER.

[Karma♥Bites ^.~]

bookworm wrote: "After reading some other book descriptions I remembered more. The mom was a nurse at a hospital and something happens to her daughter and her husband can't get a hold of mom and brings daughter to the ER."

bookworm, do you remember if this is how/why the couple reunites? Meaning, is this daughter one of the surviving children or the one who dies?

[bookworm]

It's the one who dies

[Karma♥Bites ^.~]

OK, thanks! Then it matches the book that I'm thinking of. Now, I'll have to see if my memory will stretch enough to recall title. I'll let you know. :)

[bookworm]

Awesome!! Thank You I have been trying to figure this out for a long time!!

[bookworm]

Any Luck Karma??

[bookworm]

I just had a suggestion on another forum for Always in my heart by Catherine Anderson (the storylinr doesn't seem to fit but I'm checking into it it's been so long I have no doubt forgotten alot.

[bookworm]

Karma♥Bites ^.~ wrote: "OK, thanks! Then it matches the book that I'm thinking of. Now, I'll have to see if my memory will stretch enough to recall title. I'll let you know. :)"

Any Luck Karma♥Bites ^.~

Still looking for this book

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Not all details match, but maybe:
Once Upon a Time, There Was You
16 Lighthouse Road

[bookworm]

Thanks Lobstergirl!! I added that to my to read list, it was published too late to be one though I definitely read it before Feb 2007.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

That second one is from 2001.

[bookworm]

Oh Wow I thought that was one link I will check out the second one, Thank You!!!

[bookworm]

I am reading Once upon a time, there was you now, and unfortunately after reading the description of the other book that one isn't it either, Thanks for the suggestions!! I have found all the book titles and authors I have posted on this site other than this one. The book was told from the parents point of view mainly the wife though at times I believe it went back and forth between her and the husb/ex husb. I still have hope!! Oh and don't think the complete details of what happened to the child are told till maybe the middle of the story...

[Samantha The Escapist]

Pointing this out to both of you, someone else posted an identical book request. You should check out her thread and see if you guys can't help each other remember - it seems like it must be the same book.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[bookworm]

It could be the same book I'm a little fuzzy on the details. I am reading 16 Lighthouse Road now. I just started and so far I don't recognize it. If anyone has any other possible authors or titles please post them.

[bookworm]

Although 16 Lighthouse Road is a good book unfortunately it's not the one, thanks again Lobstergirl!

[bookworm]

It's now a couple months shy or a year since i posted this....if anyone can help i would appreciate it. Thanks to all who have replied previously...

[Kate]

Keep on bumping it. I had a book that went 17 months before it was identified. Others have had books found even longer than that.

[Michelle °O°]

Probably not this one as it seems newer

A Broken Forever
A Broken Forever

[Ann aka Iftcan]

I had one found after 3 years--and I know of one book first hand that was 5 years in the searching. . . So keep on keeping on Bookworm.

[bookworm]

Thanks all!!! For the suggestions and encouragement.... A Broken Forever sounds good even though it was published this year so I don't see how it can be the one...thank you I have added to my to read shelf. Happy day all!

[bookworm]

Being that Christmas time is coming up and this happily ever after happens at Christmas time I wanted to bump it again and see if anyone recognizes it...

[Juels]

In Dahlia's Wake?
Five Star Expressions - With Love From Sam?
Noel?

[bookworm]

Thank you so much for the suggestions!! Unfortunately, it's not any of those three books...

[bookworm]

Bump (the accident may involve the child getting caught in a blind cord or strangling from a blind cord)

[bookworm]

After thinking some more on this the woman may have gone back to hometown to finalize divorce...anyone????

[Kris]

Do you remember if the child who died was a boy or girl, and their age (baby/toddler/etc.)?

About how many years have passed since the couple was together? Or about how old are the two remaining children (teenagers/young adults in their 20s/etc.)?

Do you remember the (ex)husband's job?

[bookworm]

I believe the child was a girl maybe twoish

[bookworm]

maybe 10 to1 15 years passed between the time the couple split till they got back together

[bookworm]

the kids are remaining Kids were maybe 5 and 8 when the accident happened, I believe the mom was at work and the kids were placing in the yard with the dad and he finds the youngest in the house. everyone blames themself...when couple get back together the remaining Kids are adults

[bookworm]

I don't remember the husbands original occupation but at the end I believe he ran a bookstore or coffee shop

[bookworm]

I have a suggestion that its a LaVyrle Spencer book, Bittersweet sounds like it but i haven't found the scene I remember with the child yet and am not sure this would fit in with the rest of the story so idk...Has anyone read her books and might remember the story? I am reading Bittersweet now.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Mourning Ruby? Ruby dies in a playground accident.

[bookworm]

This isn't it, thanks for the lead :)

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Please note normal bump period is 30 days, unless you remembered new information.

[Kris]

Author LaVyrle Spencer - bookworm's suggestion

[bookworm]

Nope not LaVyrle Spencer, TY!

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