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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1998
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • Terrified of the water but needing to learn how to swim, Laurel convinces Marna, a former swimming champion who had given up her Olympic dreams for marriage, to give her lessons, a request that marks the beginning of an extraordinary friendship. Tour...



  • Like so many children from divorced families, Jessica finds herself dealing with the pressures and anger that come when both her mother and father remarry and she has two whole new families to live with, each with different rules. She feels angry bec...



  • "She was always crazy. Looking back, I see no doubt about it. It was a deceptive craziness, though, sometimes luminous and joyful. Even when it was, my brother and I knew it was important not to relax...." Sometimes things -- no matter how hard a ...



  • Everyone knows sisters like the Sams girls--three women trying their best to be good daughters, mothers and wives. Lydia, married to Wayne, worked a dead-end job to make sure her daughter, Anna Claire, had the best in life. Madaline, the mother o...



  • When she died, Christine O'Gara left behind a fragile, fractured family--estranged, embittered and at odds over custody of her only child. But in time, they'll see that Christine's legacy is strong enough to finally give a young girl the father she d...




  • Imagine a hawk's view of the magnificent bluegrass pastures of Kentucky horse country. Circle around the remnants of a breeding farm, four beautiful horses grazing just beyond the paddock. Inside the ramshackle house, a family is falling apart. Ha...



  • In a poignant, tenderly told story, a little girl feels confused and overwhelmed by her birth Dad and his new wife and children and her step Dad. Unlike her friends, she has two dads, two homes and two sets of rules. Jessica's Two Families tells in a...



  • From award-winning author Lynne Hugo comes a witty, insightful, refreshingly unsentimental novel about one woman's unconventional path from heartbreak to hope . . .

    After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the pas...






  • Award-winning author Lynne Hugo returns with a life-affirming, poignant novel in the spirit of A Man Called Ove -- a story brimming with both wit and warmth about how a family gets on . . . and goes on. CarolSue and her sister, Louisa, are best f...



  • From the award-winning author of A Matter of Mercy and The Testament of Harold's Wife, comes a beautifully written exploration of how the language of healing can transcend seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Eve, a chimpanzee orphaned by poachers and...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lynne Hugo has published 11 books.

Lynne Hugo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Language of Kin, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Lynne Hugo, Swimming Lessons, was published in July 1998.

No. Lynne Hugo does not write books in series.