The Narrowboat Summer season

“Pretty…One other heartening story about the opportunity of putting out in a brand new course at any age. It’s also a soothing learn, particularly welcome in these anxious instances.” —Christian Science Monitor

From the creator of Meet Me on the Museum, an enthralling novel of second possibilities, about three ladies, one canine, and the narrowboat that brings them collectively

Eve anticipated Sally to return festooned with suitcases and in a single day baggage full of every thing she owned, however she was incorrect. She arrived on foot, with a rucksack and a provider bag. “I simply walked away,” she mentioned, climbing on to the boat. Eve knew what she meant.

Meet Eve, who has left her thirty-year profession to change into a Free Spirit; Sally, who has waved goodbye to her detached husband and two grown-up youngsters; and Anastasia, a defiantly unbiased narrowboat-dweller, who’s all of the sudden landlocked and susceptible.

Earlier than they fairly know what they’ve carried out, Sally and Eve conform to drive Anastasia’s narrowboat on a journey by means of the canals of England, as she awaits a life-saving operation. As they glide gently – and never so gently – by means of the countryside, the eccentricities and challenges of narrowboat life draw them inexorably collectively, and a young and unforgettable story unfolds. At summer time’s finish, all three ladies should resolve whether or not to return to the lives they left behind, or forge a brand new path ahead.

Candid, hilarious, and uplifting, Anne Youngson’s The Narrowboat Summer season is a celebration of the ability of friendship and new experiences to vary one’s life, at any age.