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The Jetsetters
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick
"Are you ready to set sail on a literary adventure? This month I am listening to The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward! I love the sense of adventure in this story - it’s about a disconnected family that reunites on a cruise ship traveling through Europe. If you're packing for spring break, be sure to include a copy of this fun listen and follow along with Reese’s Book Club!" (Reese Witherspoon)
When 70-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she was a single mother who meant everything to them.
When she wins the cruise, the family packs all their baggage - literal and figurative - and spends 10 days traveling from sun-drenched Athens through glorious Rome to tapas-laden Barcelona on an over-the-top cruise ship, the Splendido Marveloso. As lovers new and old join the adventure, long-buried secrets are revealed, and the Perkins family is forced to confront the defining choices in their lives.
Can four lost adults find the peace they've been seeking by reconciling their childhood aches and coming back to each other? In the vein of The Nest and The Vacationers, Ward has created a delicious and intelligent novel about the courage it takes to reveal our true selves, the pleasures and perils of family, and how we navigate the seas of adulthood to cruise - we can only hope - toward joy.
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- cottagedweller
- 02-08-2020
Don't go on a cruise
I light & fluffy listen. Enough to ensure you never go on a massive cruise ship with your family.
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- Tenkara
- 04-02-2021
Entertaining book about family and social issues
Overall a good novel. The characters were well developed and it was strong storytelling.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-05-2020
Cliche after cliche
Struggled to finish. Boring and trashy. Lack of character development. Author failed to develop the relationship between the characters and half finished many story lines.
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- MEW
- 25-05-2020
Ditsy
Couldn't finish this book. Dreadful narrator aside, the story just goes nowhere. None of the characters develops into anything credible. Hope I can return it for a credit soon.
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