A friend gave me a copy of NIGHT SWIMMING by Robin Schwarz to take on vacation with me. She told me that it reminded her of our friendship. Now I had to read it.
Charlotte Clapp is quiet, unassuming, and overweight. She has been taking care of her terminally ill mother, watching reruns of Magnum, P.I., and
eating bon-bons. Life has simply passed her by. On a routine visit to
get her yearly physical, she is told that she has a year, at best, to
live.
Unwilling
to waste another moment of her humdrum existence. she quits her job at
the First Savings and Loan Bank, where she has worked for fourteen
years, taking two million dollars of their money with her. Charlotte has
never been anywhere outside of her small town, but now all 253 pounds
of her are going on an adventure. She is headed to Hollywood to meet Tom
Selleck.
The
book is about her trip, the delightful people that she meets, and how
she evolves into a self-assured woman who learns that the most important
person to love is yourself.
This
is Robin Schwarz’s first novel and I hope that she writes many more. I
liked the life lessons that Charlotte learned along the way. I enjoyed
the author’s sense of humor. The fact that her “best friend” choose the
ugliest bridesmaid dress for Charlotte to wear out of spite was funny
especially after Charlotte found a way at the end of the book to get
even.
This
is a “feel-good” book in all ways. I am sure that other readers are
going to complain about the fact that Charlotte’s journey did not have
any horrible things happen to her and that the book had an almost
perfect ending. Sometimes we need to read about heroines surviving and
doing it in a warm and humorous way.
Thank
you Sandy. It was a great beach read, but I am not sure which
character reminded you of me: the overweight heroine, her bitchy best
friend, or the OLD lady.
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