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The Summer Seekers - Sarah Morgan

 


Description

Kathleen is eighty years old. After a run-in with an intruder, her daughter wants her to move into a residential home. She’s not having any of it. What she craves – needs – is adventure.

Liza is drowning under the daily stress of family life. The last thing she needs is her mother jetting off on a wild holiday, making Liza dream of a solo break 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 advert for a driver and companion to take an epic road trip across America, she decides this job might be the answer to her prayers. Travelling with a stranger? No problem. She's not the world's best driver, but it couldn’t be worse than living with her parents again. And 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 for adventure…


Review


I've read a few of Sarah Morgan's books and they never disappoint. 

The book begins with Kathleen, a mere 80 years old, tackling an intruder with a frying pan. What follows was very familiar to me, as her daughter Liza thinks she isn't safe living alone anymore and should look at moving. But, instead Kathleen decides she's going to travel on route 66 instead.

Kathleen is aware she won't be able to drive route 66 and so she enlists Martha to do the driving for her. Martha is a young divorcee who needs an excuse to get away and working for Kathleen is a golden opportunity.

What follows is the story of Kathleen and Martha on route 66 and the discoveries they make about each other and life along the way. Meanwhile Liza is back in England making a few discoveries herself and the book switches between the different storylines in an effortless and very readable way. There is much, much more to the story and of course a little romance, but I'll leave that for you to discover yourself.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and looked forward to diving into it's pages as the author took me away to both route 66 and Cornwall, it was wonderful. Kathleen is a force to be reckoned with, having a very acerbic wit to her, and Martha isn't far behind either. The dialogue was so well written and very believable. I think I need to store up some of Kathleen's one liners for later in life myself!

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars and my thanks to netgalley for the ARC to review.

This book will be published on 27 May 2021.

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