August 2006 Book
Travels with My Lovers
Travels with My Lovers
.From the Beaujolais bars of Montmartre to the monastic cells of Tuscany, the splendor of Europe is the setting for this romantic adventure novel, the story of five phases in a womans existence through her many travels and her many loves.
This fictional account of the life of a young female musician begins as her husband sends her off to Europe with their children. Young, alive and adventurous, she stumbles, plunges and nose-dives into exhilarating romantic situations that are poignant and funny because they reflect every womans actual or imagined adventures into the world of travel and romance. What woman wouldn't delight in the thought of an Italian lover who manages to fit his hand with a winning smile into jeans she had to struggle to zip up? And that's just for starters.
The story traverses five different stages of her life, from young wife and mother about to discover a dark secret about her husband... to emancipation via divorce... to the freedom allowed as her children enter their teen years... to that time in life when memory tempts her to seek out a former love... and finally, to the time when her children are grown and she returns to New York far more enlightened and indisputably wiser.
A good first novel. The style is heady, sensual, personal, easy to read and enjoy. If you're a woman who has lived this life, you'll have lots to look back on and smile about in your old age. If you've been more conservative in your romantic encounters, you'll find Travels with My Lovers a delightful vicarious experience of a life you might have had if you had only dared to take that walk on the wild side. Either way, you are sure to experience the agony of what it means to be an American woman on the loose in Europe.
—Chiwah
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