The Sunshine When She's Gone by Thea Goodman

 WINNERS: ERIN G. and SLM8803

The Sunshine When She's Gone

By Thea Goodman

Enter to win one of

TWO COPIES of this novel

by debut author Thea Goodman!

This is NOT a book specifically for moms, but I’m just going to start out with this hypothetical question: “If you’re a mom, and more precisely, a new mom, what would you do with a whole weekend to yourself without your baby?"

Well, in The Sunshine When She's Gone, new dad John decides to help his wife out by taking their baby away for the weekend. THE WHOLE WEEKEND. Without letting his wife know that is his plan, which really wasn't his intentional plan in the first place actually. Would you freak? Jump for joy? Sleep all weekend? Party the day away?

Here’s the blurb:

 

A fresh, funny, and wisely observed debut novel about marriage—about the love, longing and ambivalence exposed when a husband takes the baby on a highly unusual outing

When Veronica Reed wakes up one frigid January morning, two things are “off”—first of all, she has had a good night’s sleep, which hasn’t happened in months, and second, both her husband and her baby are gone. Grateful for the much-needed rest, Veronica doesn’t, at first, seriously question her husband’s trip out to breakfast with baby Clara. Little does she know, her spouse has fled lower Manhattan, with Clara, for some R & R in the Caribbean. 

Told through alternating points of view, The Sunshine When She's Gone explores the life-changing impact of parenthood on a couple as individuals and as partners. Thea Goodman brings us into intimacies made tense by sleep-deprivation and to losses and gains made more real by acknowledging them. Here is the story of a couple pushed to the edge and a desperate father’s attempt give them both space to breathe. 

Want to know how the weekend ends up?

We're giving away TWO copies

of this hardback cover book!

Leave a comment about what you would do if you had a six-month-old and the father of your child swooped in and took the baby away without you knowing for the whole weekend and then lies to you about his whereabouts... could you just hang out all weekend and be yourself again? I personally do not think I could relax, but I think that Veronica was able to do some very interesting things in her time away from Clara and John. And you'll see what kind of parent John turns out to be as well! 

You will find this book very entertaining! 

Don't forget to go back and enter to win the other books I have on the blog that I haven't chosen winners for yet. They are here, simply click on the book titles and you'll be taken to that post where you can enter to win those books as well!

A Whole New You by Brett Blumenthal


The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins

Covet by Tracey Graves Garvis  

The fine print you should probably read if you want to enter this giveaway if you've never played the Booking with Manic game before! : 

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