If You Like Diane Chamberlain

Local best-selling author Diane Chamberlain focuses on relationships, families, and secrets, and the complex situations that arise when they mix. Several of her novels can be considered historical fiction, and others contain a dual narrative. Browse through the list below for books with similar themes that are also character-driven and compelling.
 

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1. A good neighborhood

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Author:
Fowler, Therese
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Formats:
Book, Audiobook, Large Print
Description:
"A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably."--

2. The many daughters of Afong Moy: a novel

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Author:
Ford, Jamie, 1968-
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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Book, Large Print, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...

3. Signal fires

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Author:
Shapiro, Dani
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
"Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately intertwined. When Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant but lonely child,...