When I read the blurb for this book and saw that it was about time travel, I was a bit reluctant to read it but since it was an author that I love, I decided to give it a chance. Once I started reading it I quickly realized that it was as fantastic as other Diane Chamberlain books, I was hooked. This is one of Diane's best books ever.

When Caroline finds out that her unborn daughter has a heart defect that will be fatal in 1970, she is devastated. Her husband has just died in Vietnam and this baby is all she has left of him. Her brother in law admits to her that he is a time traveler from 2001 and that there is surgery that can save the baby that can be done in the future. After initial disbelief, Caroline decides that she will do anything to save her baby and travels back to 2001. This is all I am going to say about the plot because I don't want to ruin anything. What I will say is that the plot is exquisitely done and doesn't have a false note in it. This book kept me reading late into the night because I had to find out what would happen to everyone.

The characters in THE DREAM DAUGHTER are so well written that the reader feels the fear and determination that Caroline has about saving her baby. Also, the research that was done about the music and the clothes during both time periods made this novel even more believable. I was around back in the 70s and her descriptions of this time period were spot on.

Every time I read a new book by Diane Chamberlain, it becomes my favorite book by her. I think this one is going to keep that distinction as favorite book by her for a long long time.

Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.

I am a huge fan of Diane Chamberlain and was excited for this new novel that had a spin on her usual fair.
Carly's life has been turned upside down after she loses her husband in Vietnam. She finds out that she is pregnant but what should be a happy time turns desperate when she finds out the child has a fatal heart issue. Since she lives in the 1970's, there isn't much that can be done. But a bombshell secret of her brother-in-law's changes everything.
I greedily consumed the first three fourths of this book. It was classic Chamberlain with a great sci-fi twist. I was invested in Carly and her child and what becomes of them. But I was rather disappointed in how perfectly tied up it was. This caused me to loose any reality that I had suspended. The ending also seemed a bit rushed as one of the characters had not been developed enough to end up where how they did,
A great attempt to add some magic, The Dream Daughter is a great start in getting outside the author's comfort zone.

Thanks to Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book and thanks to Diane Chamberlain for writing such an enjoyable and addictive story. Chamberlain takes a sci-fi topic like time travel and makes it completely believable and relatable. I found myself thinking about the story even when I wasn't reading it. This is the second Diane Chamberlain book that I've read and I think any of her books would be a guaranteed good read! She is an excellent writer who can skillfully draw the reader into the story. And yes, I did cry at the end.

THE DREAM DAUGHTER by bestselling author, Diane Chamberlain is a rich family drama about one mother's mission to save her child and in doing so unite her family. Diane Chamberlain pushes the boundaries of faith and science to deliver a novel that you will never forget.

All for the love of her unborn child. Would you save your child at all costs?

When Caroline Sears(Carly) receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is overwhelmed. It is 1970 and her husband is missing in action and presumed dead in Vietnam. What can she do to save her unborn little girl? But her brother-in-law, Hunter, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is something that can be done about her baby's heart. This something will destroy every preconceived notion that Caroline has. It will require strength and courage and a leap of faith on Caroline's part.

She decides to take a chance…for her unborn child.

This novel is about one woman’s journey to save her child, the strengths and struggles she encounters along her path, allowing her to grow as a person and to understand the true meaning of being a mother.

I found this an emotional read and give credit to the author for taking on this real life medical issue… the issue of birth defects. There is also time travel in this novel (something that I am not drawn to) but I am glad that it took on a minor role in the plot and showcased the in adept character development.

A very enjoyable read and one that will appeal to a variety of readers.

Many thanks to St. Martin's Press via NetGalley for my copy.

WOW- Just, WOW! I finished this beauty in just a few hours. It was impossible to put down as it sucks the reader in from the very first page with an incredible twist right off the bat! Diane Chamberlain has created a masterpiece. Every one of her books leaves me with such a feel-good attitude but this one takes the cake!

There are only a handful of authors whose books I pick up without reading the blurb. Diane Chamberlain is one of them simply because I know what I’m getting when I read her books. I requested this as an ARC as soon as it became available and was ecstatic when my request was granted.

How far will you go to save your child?

The Dream Daughter is an amazing story of love and sacrifice, of hope and… time. Caroline Sears meets a mysterious man, Hunter, at a hospital where she is doing her residency as a registered nurse. She finds this man intriguing and from there a friendship is born. Five years later Hunter becomes her brother-in-law.

When Caroline learns that her unborn daughter has a fatal heart defect, she is devastated. Caroline is recently widowed, living in the outer banks of North Carolina with her sister, Patti, brother-in-law, Hunter, and their son, John Paul. For Caroline the future is uncertain with no hope of saving the baby growing inside her. It is 1970 and doctors tell her there is nothing that can be done for her and the baby.
According to Hunter, however, there IS something that can be done for the baby and reveals an unbelievable secret. At first Caroline is in disbelief to learn exactly how she can save her baby and realizes that Hunter’s idea, however bizarre, is the only chance she has.

In a story expanding decades, Chamberlain takes us on an incredible journey of love and shows us just how far –literally and in more ways than one–a mother will go to save her child. This story will pull at your heart strings and leave you wanting more. The characters are developed in such way that you will feel their every pain, cry with and hope right along with them.

This is by far, one of the best books I have read this year and I look forward to adding this to my Diane Chamberlain collection.

3.5 stars

What would you do to save your child?

That really is the question in this book. Caroline Sears receives word that her unborn baby has a fatal heart defect. She is devastated, she has lost so much already. Her husband has gone missing and is presumed dead in Vietnam. Then one day her brother-in-law, Hunter comes to Caroline/Carly with some startling news. He believes there is a way that her unborn baby can be saved. She needs to suspend some disbelief. The reader needs to suspend some disbelief. As he explains to her how her child can be saved, some things begin to make sense and she decides to make a leap of faith!

I won’t say much more about the plot but to say, this book is about one woman's journey to save her child and, in the process, grows as a person and learns what being a mother is all about. The reader is also given a glimpse into the progress of medical science and prenatal care. We are also shown the emotional scope of having a child with a birth defect and the struggles to keep your child healthy and the emotions (and exhaustion) of having a child with health issues. When being strong is not a choice but a necessity.

While reading this book, I felt many emotions and it was like a roller coaster ride. Would her baby receive the treatment she needs? Will the child survive? How will she make it back home? How will her sister react?

This was not my favorite book by Chamberlain, but it was enjoyable and as I stated, it does evoke emotion. Chamberlain continues to write thoughtful books which stir the emotions while dealing with real life issues. She does take a chance with time travel in this book and I appreciated that she did not get too technical with how time travel works, etc. I appreciated that she let Carly's courage to save her baby take center stage and kept the time travel take a smaller but important role in this book. This book is about love, sacrifice, courage, strength and family.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.

First of all I have to admit that this book was my first encounter with Diane Chamberlain, so I can't compare or say if it's different from her previous books (the author states so after the epilogue, but I can't tell in which ways). After reading the blurb I started reading expecting a serie of things to happen and it was slightly disappointing that everything went exactly as I pictured it in my mind. The writing was good enough so I went on, I was around 45% when all I had been expecting had already happened, so I was finally wondering..and now what? That's when things really started to happen, and the novel became a fast paced page turner I couldn't put down. There were some pretty big and unexpected twists, and I was running toward the beautiful and moving ending that made it a five stars read for me!
If you are planning to read this because of its time travel theme than don't expect it to be the main focus of the story. It works well enough, no absurd paradoxes, but it's just the setting for a novel about love and what a woman would do for the well being of her child (and also so much more that that!)
I will definitely recommend that book but I would have liked the first half of it to be a little faster because if some impatient people will find it boring and DNF they will never know what a beautiful story they missed!

Wow! Diane Chamberlain never disappoints. This book is heart-warming with twists I never saw coming. The heartbreaks come around to acceptance and comfortable conclusion. I read this book from start to finish and was not disappointed.

I will start this review by saying I am not a fan of time travel books. I enjoyed The Time Traveler’s Wife but haven’t found any others that I can get into. I decided to give this book a chance because it seemed like it had a lot more going on than just time travel.

This book surprised me. The love and devotion Carly has for her unborn child is inspiring and engrossing. In addition, the mind altering experience Carly goes through when traveling from 1970’s to 2001, and all the changes that have taken place was really interesting. I cannot imagine what it would be like to jump into our times without any build up. We really do live in very technologically advanced times and it made me think of what previous generations would think if they didn’t go through the change in times.

While this isn’t my usual type of book, and I probably wouldn’t read anything similar again, I did enjoy this particular book far more than I expected. I would recommend this book to someone who enjoys time travel books.

*I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher. A positive review was not required. All opinions are my own.*

Oh my god, you guys. This book, this book is everything. It doesn’t quite hit the number one spot for overall books, but it’s a very close second.

If you want to go into this book completely blind, please stop reading now. What I’m about to discuss isn’t a spoiler, but I wasn’t aware of this information going into it.

Gosh where do I begin? This story starts out in the late 1960’s, where Carly is introduced to Hunter in the strangest of ways, well sorta. Anyways, what develops from there is incredible, and unique.
The element of time travel was a major shock to me, but a very much welcomed one. I’ve always wondered if time travel was real, and how it worked, etc.

I can’t say for certain whether it’s real, but I can tell you that The Dream Daughter does a phenomenal job of portraying it as real, creating a strong investment into this adventure and making you hope for the best.

I feel like I cannot love this book any more than I do. It’s so wonderfully done, and wraps up in such a way that your heart hurts, and not in an entirely bad way.

I’m hoping for a second book, because I have questions I want answered, and there’s one specific character I’m just not ready to be done with yet!

A huge Bravo to Diane Chamberlain on this one, very little doubt in my mind that this one will top the charts!

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC!
4.5 stars

I am a new (ish) fan of Diane Chamberlain. I was really excited to get this book. This was a typical yet different style that Mrs. Chamberlain usually writes. The writing was phenomenal. The story flowed very nicely, it pulled at your heart strings it was just so well done. I was not a huge fan of the time travel. It is the story of Carly, a woman who lives in the 1970 and and her baby will develop HLHS so she travels back in time to get foetal surgery and then it goes back in forth from there. Again this book would have had 5 starts except for that little piece of the book that was the premise of the story.

Take a little chick lit add some sci-fi and sprinkle in a bit of romance and you have The Dream Daughter. I always thought I wouldn't like time travel books but since I read the Time Traveler's Wife a number of years ago, I have changed my mind. And this book handles the sci-fi aspects just as well which allowed me to suspend reality and buy into the premise. It was also fun to see today's technology in the eyes of someone from the 1960s. I do admit I lost a little interest in the latter part of the book but a good twist at the end made me forget that I had lost interest for a bit!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an early release of this book in exchange for an honest review.

What would you do to save your child? That's the question at the heart of this imaginative and engrossing novel, which requires some suspension of disbelief. It's worthwhile as the story is fascinating and altogether enjoyable.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the ARC.

When i started this book I had no idea what to expect. All I can say is it did not disappoint. I was so drawn to Carly and all of her struggles, Hunter and his desire to help out someone that meant so much to him, Myra and her annoyance at having Carly thrust upon her, Patti and her confusion and anger, and of course Joanna and her connection to this woman that seemed to have dropped into her life from nowhere but that she felt deeply connected to. This book made me smile, made me cry, and I cannot recommend it enough.

I received an advanced copy of this book in return of an honest review. Thank you St. Martins Press and Netgalley for giving me the advanced opportunity to fall in love with this book.

I really loved this book! I was unaware of the science fiction/fantasy component and probably would not have been interested but I read a short excerpt and was immediately drawn into the book! Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martins Press for providing an ARC. I found myself trying to schedule my day to give me as much free time as I could find so I could just read the book. I loved the comparison of life between the early 70's and the early 2000's. The main character, Carly, is incredibly strong and willful and you immediately find yourself pulling for her. I have not read any of Diane Chamberlain's books and I'm so glad she has a large collection of books for me to discover. I highly recommend this book, the story is quite intriguing!

Ms Chamberlain is one of my favorite authors, One of a select few that I will buy without reading a jacket cover. This book pleasantly surprised me. Wasn’t skeptical at first, but her writing turned this into one of my favorites! Thank you for approving me reqypuest!

Loved it. The blurb sets up this book perfectly. It’s 1970 and you’ve just been told your unborn child has a serious untreatable heart defect. Your husband was recently killed in the Vietnam war and this child is the last link you have to the love you once shared. When your brother in law suggests there may be a way to repair your child’s heart problem how can you not jump at the chance to save this baby.

I am strangely drawn to the concept of time travel. Each author has a different take on the mechanics and the impact moving between decades can have on historical events and the main players ability to handle their new (old) surroundings. Diane Chamberlain gets it right in The Dream Daughter. The book is told in alternating chapters from Carly (the mom to be) and Hunter’s (the brother in law) point of view. His knowledge and her desperate need makes for a compelling and memorable read. Prepare yourself for an emotional roller coaster ride.

If you’ve ever questioned to what lengths a mother will go to save her child this novel will suggest the answer is anything possible or impossible.

A terrific read I won’t soon forget. This is one book I would love to see turned into a movie.

ARC received with thanks from St. Martin’s Press via NetGalley for review.

This was a time-travel novel for readers who don't like fantasy. If you're a fan of Diane Chamberlain, you will enjoy this!

*Thanks to NetGalley for providing an e-galley in exchange for an honest review.

***Thanks to NetGalley for providing me a complimentary copy of THE DREAM DAUGHTER by Diane Chamberlain in exchange for my honest review.***

4.5 STARS

I’ll admit, when Diane Chamberlain, one of my favorite writers, asked her Facebook fans what we thought a possible time travel book, I was one of the few who said “don’t do it.” Though unsurprised, my heart sank when he announced cross genre THE DREAM DAUGHTER. Chamberlain is one of the two writers (Heather Gudenkauf) who could get me to read time travel. I was so excited to receive the ARC earlier today and finished in one sitting.

When Caroline Sears learns her fetus has a heart defect, she travels from 1970 to 2001 for fetal surgery with plans to return once baby Joanna is born. Joanna, to be named after Carly’s husband Joe, who recently died in Vietnam. Unfortunately, time travel isn’t an exact science.

THE DREAM DAUGHTER made me laugh out loud at some of the cultural references Carly didn’t quite understand. Imagine to horror at discovering The Beatles broke up and John Lennon had been assassinated the confusion of phones no longer needing cords.

At its heart, THE DREAM DAUGHTER is about a mother’s boundless love for her daughter and her willingness to do anything to make sure she’s okay. At times Carly’s persistence, while understandable, borders on uncomfortable/stalker crossing boundaries, but never creepy lines. Carly is sympathetic.

I struggled between four and five stars for #THEDREAMDAUGHTER . Chamberlain told the story better than anyone could have, dotting all the Is and crossing all the Ts. Her research as always was impeccable. Carly wasn’t as dimensional as I would have liked, her most of character was Joanna’s mother and I never got a real feel for her personality. Minor characters all seemed to too easily buy into the time travel. Perhaps because as I reader I help out hope that Carly wasn’t really in different years, but mentally ill with a tangential hold on reality (which is probably my fault as a reader).

I enjoyed reading THE DREAM DAUGHTER, though probably not enough to reread. I usually reread all of Chamberlain’s books immediately upon finishing and I don’t feel that pull, so I settled for four stars.

Chamberlain’s fans shouldn’t hesitate to read THE DREAM DAUGHTER. There’s little time travel and no sci-fi. This is truly a women’s fiction story at heart. I hope Chamberlain doesn’t stick with time travel, but if she does, I’ll read it.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advance copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Diane Chamberlain is a new author to me and while I understand this is not her normal type of book, I loved it! The plot had all these delicious twists and turns and you never knew where you were going to come out! I can't imagine how she came up with this plot, but it only shows how deep her writing talent runs. I was kept interested from the first sentence to the last, and It was a hard book to put down.
Her characters are so awesome!!! They are strong yet scared, determined yet unsure, strongly bonded by family ties yet ready to break those ties if need be. I loved all the characters in this book! I guarantee you will find yourself asking, "what would I do in that situation?"
I am honored to give The Dream Daughter a firm 5 stars and a you have to get this one!! Look for it October 2018