The jetsetters : a novel / Jet setters
Ward, Amanda Eyre, 1972-
The jetsetters : a novel / Jet setters Amanda Eyre Ward. - x, 338 pages ; 22 cm.
When seventy-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 ten 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?
9780399181894 039918189X 9781984820181 9780241475201 9781984820181 1984820184
Parent and adult child--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Family reunification--Fiction.
Reunions--Fiction.
Ocean travel--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
813/.6
The jetsetters : a novel / Jet setters Amanda Eyre Ward. - x, 338 pages ; 22 cm.
When seventy-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 ten 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?
9780399181894 039918189X 9781984820181 9780241475201 9781984820181 1984820184
Parent and adult child--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Family reunification--Fiction.
Reunions--Fiction.
Ocean travel--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
813/.6