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Flying Solo
by Linda Holmes
Linda Holmes hits another one out of the park with her sophomore novel! I absolutely loved her debut, Evvie Drake Starts Over, and I also loved this one. These are not rom-coms. There is romance, but the issues are much more serious, without romance tropes.
In Flying Solo, Laurie Sassalyn is 39 and single. She broke off her wedding about a year earlier, three weeks before the day. She doesn't want to get married, live with anyone, have kids. She's fiercely independent, much like her beloved great-aunt Dot. Dot recently died and Laurie flies from her home in Seattle to her small hometown in Maine to clean out Dot's filled-to-the-brim house. We meet Laurie's best friend, June, married with kids and still living in their hometown, and Laurie's longtime high school and college boyfriend, Nick Cooper.
Among Dot's things, Laurie finds a wood duck and she can't figure out why it was stored hidden away and not put out with the thousands of other pieces Dot displayed. The duck sends Laurie on a mysterious path to uncover the duck's importance, while learning more about her great-aunt's life and what Laurie herself might want out of life.
The banter in this book is fantasticly hilarious. I chuckled several times, fell in love with Laurie and her friends and family, and related to so much of their conversations, even as a married 49-year-old—who also considers herself fiercely independent. (Also, there's a small Easter egg to Evvie Drake Starts Over toward the beginning of the book that I metaphorically hugged to my heart.) The ending seems to meander a bit, and the resolution feels a little forced, but I'll take it because the majority of this book was a delight.
In Flying Solo, Laurie Sassalyn is 39 and single. She broke off her wedding about a year earlier, three weeks before the day. She doesn't want to get married, live with anyone, have kids. She's fiercely independent, much like her beloved great-aunt Dot. Dot recently died and Laurie flies from her home in Seattle to her small hometown in Maine to clean out Dot's filled-to-the-brim house. We meet Laurie's best friend, June, married with kids and still living in their hometown, and Laurie's longtime high school and college boyfriend, Nick Cooper.
Among Dot's things, Laurie finds a wood duck and she can't figure out why it was stored hidden away and not put out with the thousands of other pieces Dot displayed. The duck sends Laurie on a mysterious path to uncover the duck's importance, while learning more about her great-aunt's life and what Laurie herself might want out of life.
The banter in this book is fantasticly hilarious. I chuckled several times, fell in love with Laurie and her friends and family, and related to so much of their conversations, even as a married 49-year-old—who also considers herself fiercely independent. (Also, there's a small Easter egg to Evvie Drake Starts Over toward the beginning of the book that I metaphorically hugged to my heart.) The ending seems to meander a bit, and the resolution feels a little forced, but I'll take it because the majority of this book was a delight.