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Flying Solo

4/5. Determinedly single woman comes back to her home town on the brink of turning forty to clear out her great aunt’s house. She runs into an old boyfriend and also a mystery involving a carved wooden duck and exactly what her “spinster” globetrotting great aunt was up to.

Ah, lovely. Lots of you are going to like this. It’s a big glug of cozy small New England town with a splash of mystery, a splish of mild revenge thriller, and a shake of romance. It’s about how hard you have to swim up current to choose, actively, to be single, but not alone. This book lives in that tension between intensely wanting your own space/solitude and also loving somebody very much. It also uncomfortably lives in that space where making an unconventional choice takes on a sort of political life beyond you, so that suddenly your choices all seem weighted and meaningful.

It's sweet and bantery and thoughtful, and there’s a lot of Linda Holmes in here. So if you like her, you will probably like this. Also, the heroine is fat and (mostly) unconcerned about it.

Date: 2022-07-30 08:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] readerjane
Oh, that does sound good.
*adds to TBR*
*Dances the mental "I will never run out!" jig.*

Date: 2022-07-31 12:51 pm (UTC)
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oh thanks, I enjoyed her first book and am glad to hear there's another.

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