The release date for the English version of 'The Jetsetters' by
Amanda Eyre Ward is Mar 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Charlotte Perkins, seventy, dreams of getting back together with her estranged children, Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who is single; and Regan, a stressed-out mother who thought it was all wrong when Charlotte gave her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte submits a seductive essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest.
Charlotte longs to return to the time when her kids were little and she was their only mother, someone they looked up to. After she wins the vacation, the family boards the extravagant Splendido Marveloso cruise ship and spends 10 days sailing from sun-drenched Athens via magnificent Rome to tapas-filled Barcelona. They pack all of their belongings, both actual and metaphorical.
Long-kept secrets are exposed, new and old loves join the journey, and the Perkins family is forced to face life's pivotal decisions. Can four lost adults come back to each other and reconcile their childhood hurts in order to achieve the serenity they've been seeking?
Ward has written a delectable and clever story about the bravery it takes to expose our actual selves, the joys and dangers of family, and how we navigate the seas of maturity to cruise—we can only hope—to bliss. The novel is in the tradition of The Nest and The Vacationers.