Diane Chamberlain family dramas edged with suspense

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Author Biography

Diane Chamberlain is the author of 18 novels published in more than eleven languages. She writes complex stories about relationships between men and women, parents and children, brothers and sisters, and friends.
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Influences

E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, which my first grade teacher read to our class. It was the first time a story made me cry, and it was full of love and sacrifice, wonder and suspense--things that still influence my writing today.

Alice Hoffman, whose books were my bibles more than two decades ago, when I first started writing.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose Gift from the Sea is a lesson in relationships taught at, on and through my favorite setting--the beach.

Maya Angelou, whose magic with words never fails to mesmerize me.

The everyday people who cope with life's adversities while still managing to see their glass half full. It's their stories I find most intriguing.

Favorite Books

Poisonwood Bible
The Glass Castle
The Pilot's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
A Thousand Splendid Suns

Favorite Authors

Barbara Kingsolver, Anita Shreve, Alice Hoffman, Pat Conroy, Lee Smith, Ann Rivers Siddons, Luanne Rice, Elizabeth Berg

Web Links

Secrets She Left Behind

Date of Review:

04/01/2009

Published Work:

Secrets She Left Behind

Reviewer:

Judy Dils

Source:

Reader to Reader

Review Excerpt:

Diane Chamberlain is superb at creating characters we become involved with, spinning out the story of the havoc caused by a teenager’s mistake and weaving in the past to make this a novel hard to put down.