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Light of the Moon

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New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice transports listeners across the sea in this moving, magical tale of a lonely woman with a promise to keep.
Spurred by her mother’s dying wish, Susannah Connolly has traveled from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family’s history. An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah has always been confident of her ability to navigate anywhere on the globe. But in the wake of a failed love affair and grieving the loss of her mother, she is adrift and uncertain.   
American-born Grey Dempsey had come to the Camargue as a journalist, fell in love with a celebrated Romany rider, and suffered a devastating loss of his own. Now he operates a ranch as he struggles to raise his spirited but troubled young daughter, who now fears the horses she once loved.
Within their bittersweet private orbit, Susannah Connolly will find a part of herself she hadn’t known she had lost. And here she will find herself embraced by a circle of strong and passionate women bound together by their abiding faith in the legendary slave-saint Susannah seeks and in the miracles she is said to still perform. Yet old secrets swirl within the fog-shrouded landscape, betrayals that may be beyond the power of any saint, or supplicant, to repair.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 5, 2007
      Rice continues to explore mother-daughter dynamics and themes of religion and destiny in her serviceable latest (after What Matters Most
      ). Anthropologist Susannah Connolly, encouraged by her mentor Professor Helen Oakes, travels to the Camargue region in southern France for research and to fulfill a promise to Susannah's recently deceased mother to visit a statue of Sarah, a religious figure of the Romany people whose power supposedly helped Susannah's parents conceive their only daughter. Filled with guilt that she was far away at work when her mother died, Susannah is taunted and branded as indifferent by her former flame Ian Stewart, an ambitious colleague who creepily follows her to France and tries to persuade her to marry him. But after Grey, a French horse rancher, saves Susannah from big trouble in a marsh, their chemistry sizzles in tired prose (“Susannah was different from anyone he'd ever knownâ€) as Grey, whose wife left him five years earlier, agonizes about bringing a new woman into his family. While the story provides some intrigue (a group of Romany women connected to Grey's wife take Susannah into their confidence), the narrative is maddeningly repetitive and the lovey-dovey passages dull. All of Rice's hallmarks are present, though this time out they don't pop.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Blair Brown embraces the role of anthropologist Susannah Connolly, who is on assignment in France. Connelly is there with mixed motives. She wants to gain distance from a failed love affair and to fulfill a commitment she made to her mother years ago. Brown's seamless narrative traces Connolly's search for her maternal roots, which takes her to the Romany gypsies, and mysterious Saint Sarah, their patron saint. When Connelly meets Gary Dempsey and his young daughter, who is blind from a fall off a horse, Brown subtly reveals their mutual attraction. Giving a polished performance, including a French accent, Brown weaves mother-daughter dynamics amid themes of spirituality, love, and destiny to render this contemporary romance. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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