The Summer Seekers

The Summer Seekers

Sarah Morgan2021
"Sarah Morgan is a master storyteller"--Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop Get swept into a summer of sunshine, soul-searching and shameless matchmaking with this delightfully bighearted road-trip adventure by USA TODAY bestselling author Sarah Morgan! 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...
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Liz Carpenter@lizcarp
3 stars
Feb 8, 2022

3.5⭐️

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Linda Quintanilla@abigailbooksaddiction
4 stars
Nov 22, 2021

Mother and daughter relationship can be the most important yet difficult relationship to maintain. I am not saying that it cannot be managed but it is tricky to maintain over the years especially in Kathleen and Liza's case. Kathleen and Liza have maintained a frosty mother-daughter relationship since forever. Kathleen has always been an adventure traveler that she made it as her career. She has gone to different places throughout the years that made her independent and fierce, but yet it left her with a troubling relationship with her daughter, Liza. It makes you wonder if Liza has ever resented her mother leaving throughout the years all the times. And it's something Kathleen has wondered when she starts a brand new adventure. Liza may not have said it but she does regret her cold relationship with her mother. And she definitely needs her mother even more when she is having doubts in her marriage. It is okay to have doubts in your marriage. No marriage is ever perfect. Sometimes, you just need space to think. And that's what Liza is going to do. It may not have been planned but it was much needed. She will discover what is missing in her life and her marriage as well. Life can be uncertain at times but it does provide surprises especially in Kathleen and Liza's case.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer
4 stars
Sep 6, 2022
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Shirley Jones @shirls
5 stars
Mar 17, 2022

Highlights

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

Kindness isn't weakness. Kindness is a quality that is often underrated.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

Regret achieves nothing, and it isn't even valid because looking back with distance, isn't the same as looking forward when you’re close up.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

People are allowed to change their minds.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

We need to make time for the things that are important to us.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

Balance is so important life.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

A good friend can feel like family.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

Not enough people are kind.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

Life can't always be fun. There's a lesson right there. A good life is a balance between doing what you have to do and what you want to do.

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Katie Thyer@katietthyer

Nothing is more important than the people you love.

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