Paradise Girls, Sandy Gingras
Paradise Girls, Sandy Gingras
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Paradise Girls
A Novel

Author: Sandy Gingras

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley, Stephen Mendel

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2022


Synopsis

Sandy Gingras's Paradise Girls features a broken engagement. A ruined vacation in paradise. One adorable little girl. The perfect recipe for the chance of a lifetime...

It’s Christmas time, and Mary Valley is in a funk. She’s a writer for home magazines, but she’s lost touch with what home means. Her life seems meaningless. The last house she wrote about was a gazillion-dollar mansion with a moat! Plus, she’s estranged from her daughter, CC and granddaughter, Larkin and mired in a dead-end relationship with her boss.

Daniel is a man adrift since his son Timmy was killed in Afghanistan. He’s living on a houseboat in Florida with Timmy’s three-legged dog, Tripod and taking tourists out on fishing charters. But his life is on the edge. He’s painting his houseboat black, and he can’t stop thinking about “getting lost at sea.”

When Mary’s boss tells her he’s spending Christmas with his ex, she books a trip with her family to The Low Key Inn, a hotel on the edge of the Everglades. But things go wrong from the get-go. CC bails out of the vacation, and Mary is stuck with an unhappy Larkin. The hotel is dated and down-on-its-luck, and perhaps its owner is a witch. Then Mary meets Daniel, casts a hook into his head and wrecks his boat.

This is the story of how wounded people can help each other heal, how lost people can help each other find their way home. How life can become a love story…

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Griffin

About Sandy Gingras

Sandy Gingras is the author and illustrator of over twenty gift books. She’s also published fiction, poetry and narrative non-fiction, and she won the Debut Dagger Award for mystery writing in 2012, for her story Beached. She’s designed hundreds of products for national stationery companies and owns two retail stores of her own. She lives on an island six miles out to sea in a happy cottage on the bay with her husband and a dog named Turtle. Paradise Girls is her debut novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terrie on June 30, 2022

"Paradise Girls" by Sandy Gingras is a story about finding your way home into new friendships! Mary Valley has quit her job and broken her engagement all in one day and yes, her now ex-fiancé also happens to be her ex-boss! With no plans for a romantic holiday spent at home, this 42 year-old grandmo......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on June 02, 2022

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Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 05, 2022

4.5⭐️ Paradise Girls by Sandy Gingras was my first novel by her and I ended up really enjoying it. If I had to give it a one word description it would be “contemplation”. The focus was mainly on 3 people who have lived an already full life. All three of them are contemplating everything about their l......more

Goodreads review by Samantha (WLABB) on June 28, 2022

Mary found herself, once again, stuck in a life she didn’t want. This time, she decided to make some decisions for herself. One of those decisions brought her and her granddaughter, Larkin, to The Low Key Inn where Mary found so much more than just a place to stay for the holidays. I chose this book......more

Goodreads review by Denise on July 08, 2022

BOOK REVIEW: Paradise Girls by Sandy Gingras 2022 Publication Date: July 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️️ T.I.M.E. Most Anticipated Books Of 2022 CONNECT WITH A BOOK | T.I.M.E. SIMPLE LIVING TIP You hold the key to your life... Even if you feel like you have misplaced it for awhile... So, turn your "house" upside down and shak......more