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Few writers can move and captivate readers as Belva Plain can. In Daybreak, perhaps her best and boldest work yet, she creates a living, breathing portrait of two families joined by a devastating childhood illness, yet divided by the politics of hatred and by the sons they love. In a doctor's office, a man and a woman sit stunned as the doctor speaks: Blood tests show without a shadow of a doubt that the son they love so dearly, and who is now dying, is not their child. Incredible as it seems, there must have been a mix-up in the hospital where he was born. Enduring the pain of Peter's death…
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5 editions · 2 languages- Audiobook · English · 1995Chivers Audio Books · 9780745165622
- Other · English · 1999Tandem Library · 9780613134347
- Other · English · 1995Dell · 448 pages · 9780440216810
- Other · English · 1994Delacorte Press · 360 pages · 9780385311045
- Hardcover · Spanish · 1995Bantam Books · 9780440295341
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