The babies sucked more to hear The Cat in the Hat, regardless of whether it was in their mothers voice. I had started this story a few years ago and put it aside after reading a couple of pages. DeCasper and Spence used their sucking test again.

I enjoyed this book and as I said, June Spence is a new author for me. Slowly, as she uncovers her family’s legacy, she begins to build a new life for herself in a landscape with which she must come to terms. As she cares for her ailing mother, Avie begins to unravel the story of who she is and to discover the secrets of a disappearing picture of life as it used to be. When her mother almost dies in a house fire, Avie returns home to the peaceful Southern lifestyle that she strove to leave behind forever after college. She has been born almost a generation after her two siblings and truly cannot find her own place in her family. Read Change Baby book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. Why do I have it? I like contemporary fiction and June Spence is a new author for me.Īvie Goss is a ‘change baby’, a baby born to her mother late in life. Amazon.in - Buy Change Baby book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 20 November 2009 : Change Baby: This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing).

As Larry Brown wrote about her stories, 'In her beautiful sentences June Spence writes with knowledge and intelligence, with wit and insight, and a generous helping of compassion.Where did it come from? From a Library Book Sale June Spence's astonishing talents as a literary stylist, which were so highly praised on the publication of her story collection, Missing Women and Others, are stunningly exhibited in this impressive debut novel. But her motives are not completely altruistic Avie also needs a break from her complicated and disastrous love-life.

When her mother nearly dies in a house fire, Avie returns to the home she abandoned after college to look after her. Slowly, as she makes sense of her family's legacy, she begins to build a new life for herself in a landscape with which she must come to terms. june spence is the author of Missing Women and Others, a collection of short stories, and Change Baby, a novel. Avie Goss is a 'change baby', born to her mother late in life, almost a generation after her two siblings. There, she tends to her ailing mother and begins to unravel the story of who she is-and to uncover a different picture of a way of life that has all but vanished. When her mother nearly dies in a house fire, Avie returns home to the South she abandoned after college. Avie Goss is a change baby-a baby born late in her mother's life, almost a generation after the births of her two siblings. After the near death of her mother in a house fire, Avie Goss, a change-of-life baby born nearly a generation after the births of her two siblings, returns to her Southern roots to care for her ailing mother, to try to understand and come to terms with her family's legacy, and to build a new life for herself. An award-winning writer's debut novel about a young woman's return to her Southern roots and to the secrets of who she is.

Change Baby by June Spence