02888cam a2200457 i 4500 922066903 TxAuBib 20230807120000.0 230623s2023||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2023936034 9781638088080 163808808X (OCoLC)1385397307 TxAuBib rda Higgins, Kristan, author. A little ray of sunshine [large print] : a novel / Kristan Higgins. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023. 639 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Berkley. Includes discussion questions. Includes bibliographic references. "A kid walks into your bookstore and . . . Guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! It's a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently, he felt the need to secretly arrange a vacation to Cape Cod for the summer so he could meet his birth mother . . . without a word to either her or his dad. It's also a surprise -- to say the least -- to Harlow, the woman who secretly placed her baby for adoption so many years ago. She's spent the years since then building a quiet life. She runs a bookstore with her grandfather, hangs out with her four younger siblings and is more or less happily single, though she can't help gravitating toward Grady Byrne, her old friend from high school. He's moved back to town, three-year-old daughter in tow, no wife in the picture. But she's always figured her life had to be child-free, so that complicates things. When Matthew walks into Harlow's store, she faints. Monica panics. And all their assumptions -- about what being a parent really means -- explode. This summer will be full of more surprises as both their families are redefined . . . and as both women learn that for them, there's no limit to a mother's love."-- Back cover. 20230807. Adopted children Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Birthmothers Fiction. Families Fiction. Women booksellers Fiction. Bookstores Fiction. Large type books. large print books. Cape Cod Bay (Mass) Fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Domestic fiction. Romance fiction.