Pam B. (PamelaB) reviewed on 6/16/2010

Although Elizabeth Berg is a good writer and has some interesting points to make, the character in this book is NOT very sympathetic. It is hard to relate to someone who has loads of money and a husband who apparently doesn't care that she has taken off (in a Mercedes, no less) to "find herself" without any warning to her husband or daughter that she is so unhappy. If this book was written about a man doing the same thing, we'd all be up in arms at how selfish he is. Talk about a lack of responsibility! If she doesn't need the money from a job, she could at least volunteer and be of SOME use to society. Perhaps if I were younger or had an easier life myself, I could relate, but her biggest complaint is that she's bored (though she says she chooses not to have friends.)

Another book about a kind of running away is "Blue Water" by A. Manette Ansay, but in that book, there is a good reason for the running. I'd read that instead.

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