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Little Lovely Things

by Maureen Joyce Connolly · 2019

A mother's chance decision leads to a twist of fate that is every parent's worst nightmare. Claire Rawlings, mother of two and medical resident, will not let the troubling signs of an allergic reaction prevent her from… more

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Learn from flowers-always angle towards the sun
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The bravest warriors know when to retreat
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A photon is defined as a package of light-what are you defined as?
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Learn from spiders. Sometimes you need to walk sideways
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Accept each offering as if it is a sign from Heaven
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Speak criticism into the mirror before you share with anyone else
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Live as you are involved in some great cosmic event
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The best drinks are those shared with friends
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Be certain there are no coincidences
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Find your strength in flexibility
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Always be a little wild
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Be a firefly-flash as if you're dive-bombing from Heaven
Be BOLD like a cicada-pipe the heck up

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A mother's chance decision leads to a twist of fate that is every parent's worst nightmare.

Claire Rawlings, mother of two and medical resident, will not let the troubling signs of an allergic reaction prevent her from making it in for rounds. But when Claire's symptoms overpower her while she's driving into work, her two children in tow, she must pull over. Moments later she wakes up on the floor of a gas station bathroom-her car, and her precious girls have vanished.

The police have no leads and the weight of guilt presses down on Claire as each hour passes with no trace of her girls. All she has to hold on to are her strained marriage, a potentially unreliable witness who emerges days later, and the desperate but unquenchable belief that her daughters are out there somewhere.

Little Lovely Things is the story of a family shattered by an unthinkable tragedy. Played out in mult

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First published
2019
Genre
Fiction
Goodreads rating
3.85 (4k ratings)

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