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* EvilStepmother / RichBitch: Beverly, who wants to take the restaurant from Julia and treats her like shit over the problems she caused as a teenager. She winds up being chased away by Julia's loyal staff at the end.


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* RichBitch / WickedStepmother: Beverly, who wants to take the restaurant from Julia and treats her like shit over the problems she caused as a teenager. She winds up being chased away by Julia's loyal staff at the end.
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* BreakTheCutie: Julia lost her mother, her father remarried to a selfish woman and she was unpopular in school to the point where she started self-harming. [[spoiler:She wound up pregnant after one night with Sawyer, who later dumped her to go back to his girlfriend, was sent away to a boarding school and forced to give her baby up for adoption.]]

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* BreakTheCutie: BrokenBird: Julia lost her mother, her father remarried to a selfish woman and she was unpopular in school to the point where she started self-harming. [[spoiler:She wound up pregnant after one night This got her sent to boarding school by her stepmother and [[spoiler: during her first summer home, she slept with Sawyer, who later Sawyer and became pregnant. He dumped her to go back to his girlfriend, and she was sent away to a boarding school and forced to give put her baby up for adoption.adoption. It takes the entirety of the story to heal her wounds.]]
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*HeelFaceTurn: Stella used to be part of Dulcie's GirlPosse who gave Julia a bad time in high school, but she matured as an adult and became Julia's closest friend.

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* GentleGiant: Emily's grandfather Vance, the tallest man in Mullaby, is very shy and has always been rather passive.



* GentleGiant: Emily's grandfather Vance, the tallest man in Mullaby, is very shy and has always been rather passive.

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* GentleGiant: MissingMom: Dulcie's death is what kicks off the plot, with Emily's grandfather Vance, the tallest man in Mullaby, is very shy and has always been rather passive.move to Mullaby.
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''The Girl Who Chased The Moon'' is a Young Adult romance novel by Sarah Addison Allen.

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Emily Benedict has just come to Mullaby, North Carolina, after the death of her mother. Mullaby is where her mother grew up, and she's hoping to learn more about her and solve some of the mysteries of her past. Shy and unsure at first, she's quickly drawn into the whimsy and bustle of Mullaby courtesy of a new neighbor, her shy grandfather and a handsome boy named Win Coffey.

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Emily Benedict has just come to Mullaby, North Carolina, after the death of her mother. Mullaby is where her mother grew up, and she's hoping to learn more about her and solve some of the mysteries of her past. Shy and unsure at first, she's quickly drawn into the whimsy and bustle of Mullaby courtesy of a new neighbor, her shy grandfather and a handsome boy named Win Coffey.
with a secret.



To top it all off, Emily keeps seeing strange lights in the backyard and is sure she's not just imagining things. The source of the lights is the last thing she could have ever expected.



* AlphaBitch: [[spoiler:Emily's mother, Dulcie, was this to Julia in their teen years. Emily is shocked, as the mother she knew was kind and always fighting for a selfless cause.]]

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* AlphaBitch: [[spoiler:Emily's Emily's mother, Dulcie, was this to Julia in their teen years. Emily is shocked, as the mother she knew was kind and always fighting for a selfless cause.]]



* [[SinsOfTheFather Sins Of The Mother]]: [[spoiler:Dulcie dated Logan Coffey when they were teenagers, and for years it was thought that she forced him to reveal the Coffey family's secret. Logan killed himself, and his father Morgan as well as the rest of the town blamed Dulcie to the point where she had to leave Mullaby. As a result, Morgan tries to keep Win away from Emily, thinking Dulcie's daughter will cause history to repeat itself.]]

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* HiddenDepths: Vance, normally shy and reserved, speaks very passionately when it comes to the subject of North Carolina barbecue.
* GentleGiant: Emily's grandfather Vance, the tallest man in Mullaby, is very shy and has always been rather passive.
* [[SinsOfTheFather Sins Of The Mother]]: [[spoiler:Dulcie dated Logan Coffey when they were teenagers, and for years it was thought that she forced him to reveal the Coffey family's secret. Logan killed himself, and his father Morgan as well as the rest of the town blamed Dulcie to the point where she had to leave Mullaby. As a result, Morgan tries to keep Win away from Emily, thinking Dulcie's daughter will cause history to repeat itself.]] It turns out things went a lot differently than Morgan assumed all those years.]]
** Averted with Julia, who loves Emily like a daughter despite how Dulcie treated her in high school.

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Julia Winterson takes an instant liking to Emily. A woman who struggled through her teen years filled with pain, anguish and self-hatred, she pours her heart into the legacy her father left her in the town's restaurant and bakes cake after cake, hoping to bring a lost love back to her life.

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Julia Winterson takes an instant liking to Emily.Emily, who reminds her a bit of her as a teenager. A woman who struggled through her teen years filled with pain, anguish and self-hatred, she pours her heart into the legacy her father left her in the town's restaurant and bakes cake after cake, hoping to bring a lost love back to her life.



* AlphaBitch: [[spoiler: Emily's mother, Dulcie, was this to Julia in their teen years. Emily is shocked, as the mother she knew was kind and always fighting for a selfless cause.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Julia lost her mother, her father remarried to a selfish woman and she was unpopular in school to the point where she started self-harming. [[spoiler: She wound up pregnant after one night with Sawyer, who later dumped her to go back to his girlfriend, was sent away to a boarding school and forced to give her baby up for adoption.]]

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* AlphaBitch: [[spoiler: Emily's [[spoiler:Emily's mother, Dulcie, was this to Julia in their teen years. Emily is shocked, as the mother she knew was kind and always fighting for a selfless cause.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Julia lost her mother, her father remarried to a selfish woman and she was unpopular in school to the point where she started self-harming. [[spoiler: She [[spoiler:She wound up pregnant after one night with Sawyer, who later dumped her to go back to his girlfriend, was sent away to a boarding school and forced to give her baby up for adoption.]]]]
* EvilStepmother / RichBitch: Beverly, who wants to take the restaurant from Julia and treats her like shit over the problems she caused as a teenager. She winds up being chased away by Julia's loyal staff at the end.



* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Julia. She finally meets her daughter, Maddie, in the final chapter.]]

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*[[SinsOfTheFather Sins Of The Mother]]: [[spoiler:Dulcie dated Logan Coffey when they were teenagers, and for years it was thought that she forced him to reveal the Coffey family's secret. Logan killed himself, and his father Morgan as well as the rest of the town blamed Dulcie to the point where she had to leave Mullaby. As a result, Morgan tries to keep Win away from Emily, thinking Dulcie's daughter will cause history to repeat itself.]]
* SweetTooth: Brought up by Saywer, who claims to have a sweet ''sense'' that lets him know, no matter how far away he is, that someone's baked a cake.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Julia.[[spoiler:Julia. She finally meets her daughter, Maddie, in the final chapter.]]
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Emily Benedict has just come to Mullaby, North Carolina, after the death of her mother. Mullaby is where her mother grew up, and she's hoping to learn more about her and solve some of the mysteries of her past. Shy and unsure at first, she's quickly drawn into the whimsy and bustle of Mullaby courtesy of a new neighbor, her shy grandfather and a handsome boy named Win Coffey.

Julia Winterson takes an instant liking to Emily. A woman who struggled through her teen years filled with pain, anguish and self-hatred, she pours her heart into the legacy her father left her in the town's restaurant and bakes cake after cake, hoping to bring a lost love back to her life.

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*AlphaBitch: [[spoiler: Emily's mother, Dulcie, was this to Julia in their teen years. Emily is shocked, as the mother she knew was kind and always fighting for a selfless cause.]]
*BreakTheCutie: Julia lost her mother, her father remarried to a selfish woman and she was unpopular in school to the point where she started self-harming. [[spoiler: She wound up pregnant after one night with Sawyer, who later dumped her to go back to his girlfriend, was sent away to a boarding school and forced to give her baby up for adoption.]]
*FoodPorn: So, so much. One edition of the book even includes recipes for three of Julia's cakes.
*TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Julia. She finally meets her daughter, Maddie, in the final chapter.]]
*ThroughHisStomach: This turns out to be one of the catalysts for Saywer and Julia's reunion.

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