Judith Guest, whose first novel, Ordinary People …, was both a popular and a critical success, has written another dramatic and moving story [Second Heaven]. This time the focus is not on an "ordinary" nuclear family, but on three lonely people who feel rejected by their families and whose lives come together by chance…. The touching final chapter gives promise of a new "family" to be formed by these three, who fill real needs in each other's lives. This ending is happier, though less realistic, than the bittersweet conclusion to Ordinary People. Guest again takes us into the hearts and minds of real and likable people. She writes of post-divorce problems and troubled teenagers with great insight and sensitivity. This heart-warming story will not disappoint her many fans.

Priscilla Johnson, in a review of "Second Heaven," in School Library Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4, December, 1982, p. 87.