Author: Amanda Eyre Ward

I feel guilty that I asked the library to purchase this book. When you order a book from the Inter-library loan app you are often denied your request because the book is too recent and other libraries aren’t willing to send it out. When this happened with this book the librarian asked if I wanted them to purchase it so I said yes.

I didn’t enjoy the book. The premise was good; an elderly (she’s only 71!) woman wins a Mediterranean cruise and she invites her three children come along because she wants to reconnect with them after their difficult childhood. The story of each of their lives is interesting but cut up by chapters from the various ports of call they visit. Each chapter (sometimes only two pages long) is told from the vantage point of either Charlotte (the mother) or her children.

In the end, I was glad it was an easy read and that it was over.

Goodreads Rating: * *