


Summer's Child (ISBN 0553587625) 2.Blurb: After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust. Rice divides her time between New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut. Several of Rice's novels have been adapted for television, including Crazy in Love for TNT, Blue Moon for CBS, Follow the Stars Home and Silver Bells for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Beach Girls for a Summer 2005 mini-series on Lifetime. In 2002, Connecticut College awarded Rice an honorary degree and invited her to donate her papers to the college's Special Collections Library. Her debut novel, Angels All Over Town, was published in 1985. She began to write, working as a maid in Newport, Rhode Island, a researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and a whale researcher and deckhand in Woods Hole, Massachusetts to support herself. She studied Art History at Connecticut College but dropped out when her father became ill.

Her first published poem appeared in the Hartford Courant when she was eleven, and her first short story was published in American Girl when she was fifteen.

She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family.īorn in New Britain, Connecticut, Rice is the eldest of three daughters born to an English teacher and a typewriter salesman. Luanne Rice (born September 25, 1955) is the bestselling American author of twenty-five novels.
