Girls' Weekend

Name: Girls' Weekend
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Cara Sue Achterberg
ISBN: 9781515986898

Author: Cara Sue Achterberg

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/14/2017

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women

Synopsis

Dani, Meg, and Charlotte have bonded over babies, barbeques, and backyards, but when they escape for a girls weekend away, they can't bring themselves to return to lives that don't seem to fit anymore.

Harried Dani can't explain why she feels so discontented until she meets a young gallery owner who inspires her to rediscover the art that once made her happy.

Dependable Meg faces up to a grief that threatens to swallow her whole and confronts a marriage built on expectations.

Flamboyant Charlotte, frustrated with her stagnated life and marriage, pursues a playboy Irish singer and beachside business opportunities.

All three of these women thought they would be different. None of them thought they'd be facing down forty and still wondering when life starts. What they do when they realize where they're headed is both inspiring and wildly entertaining.

Girls' Weekend is a fun, yet poignant romp through the universal search of who we are, why we love, and what makes us happy by an author who is quickly emerging as one of our most incisive storytellers.

About Cara Sue Achterberg

Cara Sue Achterberg is a writer, blogger, and occasional cowgirl who lives on a farm in South Central, Pennsylvania. Her first novel, I'm Not Her, was a national bestseller. Her second novel, Girls' Weekend was released May 2016.

Cara teaches workshops on creating and affording an organic life, based on the information shared in her book, Live Intentionally: 65 Challenges for a Healthier, Happier Life, which was chosen as first runner up at the 2015 Green Book Festival.

She teaches creative writing and her essays and articles have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. You can find links to Cara's blogs and inspiration for teen writers on her website CaraWrites.com.

Cara enjoys fostering dogs for the nonprofit all-breed rescue organization, Operation Paws for Homes and writes a blog about her experiences. Her small hillside farm is home to three horses, a changing number of cats, and plenty of chickens.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karolyn

Cara Sue Achterberg is fantastic at creating characters and getting into their minds and lives. GIRLS' WEEKEND, Achterberg's second novel, is the story of three forty-something women who go away for a weekend, leaving husbands and children behind. They rent a beach house not too far from home, and h......more

Goodreads review by Julie

Girls' Weekend Book description sounded interesting enough for me to request this title for review. Starts out with three woman in the same town who are friends with one another due to spouses or children and they decide to have a girls weekend. As each gets their own alternating chapter we understand......more

Goodreads review by Kate

Once I start a book, I am pretty much determined to finish it hoping that it will eventually get better. Not the case with this one. A story about three women who go away for the weekend and all decide not to return to their lives for a while seems too unrealistic. I didn't laugh. I didn't cry. I di......more

Goodreads review by Bridgett

Being a woman in my early 40s, I was really hoping this book would resonate. It didn't. The story was slow, the characters were self-absorbed, and their actions were not remotely believable. It's a shame, because I feel there was a lot of potential here. It took me 10 days to read a book that would......more

Goodreads review by Kristy

Charlotte, Dani, and Meg have been friends for ages-- bonding over motherhood and the issues that accompany it. However, each woman has their own problems and are reluctant to bring them up with their friends. Charlotte, a busy and successful interior designer, has a dentist husband and a loving son......more