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The summer seekers

Kathleen is eighty years old. After she has a run-in with an intruder, her daughter wants her to move into a residential home. But she's not having any of it. What she craves--what she needs--is adventure. Liza is drowning in the daily stress of family life. The last thing she needs is her mother jetting off on a wild holiday, making Liza long for a solo summer of her own. Martha is having a quarter-life crisis. Unemployed, unloved and uninspired, she just can't get her life together. But she knows something has to change. When Martha sees Kathleen's advertisement for a driver and companion to share an epic road trip across America with, she decides this job might be the answer to her prayers. She's not the world's best driver, but anything has to be better than living with her parents. And traveling with a stranger? No problem. Anyway, how much trouble can one eighty-year-old woman be? As these women embark on the journey of a lifetime, they all discover it's never too late to start over...

Book  - 2021
  • ISBN: 9781335622457
  • Physical Description 408 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2021.

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The Summer Seekers
The Summer Seekers
by Morgan, Sarah
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From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

At 80, Kathleen is determined to finally confront the ghosts of her past while taking the trip of a lifetime. Years ago, Kathleen was the star of a long-running television series about glamorous holidays, but her frequent absences left her daughter, Liza, feeling abandoned. Liza has buried her issues by taking care of others but hasn't done much to take care of herself. Martha--unemployed, broken-hearted, and a reluctant driver--answers Kathleen's ad for a chauffeur, seeing the summer road trip as an escape from her quarter-life crisis back home in England. As Martha and Kathleen set out to get their kicks on Route 66 in a cherry red Mustang convertible, picking up a sexy hitchhiker and enjoying cocktails after a long drive, Liza retreats to Kathleen's home on the Cornish coast, leaving her husband and twin teenage daughters to manage on their own. Skillfully capturing three very different women at pivotal points in their lives as they each take turns narrating, Morgan's latest, possibly her best yet, is the ultimate road-trippin' beach read and just what we all need after the long lockdown.