- Brothers and sisters, Grandparents, Custody of children, Fiction
When his sister and her husband die in a car accident, Gordon McKenna and his parents are thrown into a fierce custody battle for three-year-old Keefer, as they try to prove that a single man can make a good parent and that adopted siblings have the same rights as biological ones.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 398
- Publisher
- John Murray, Harper Torch, Charnwood
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007139859
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