I remember reading Paullina Simons’ frst novel, Tully, as though it was yesterday. In fact, maybe it was yesterday. How can 13 years have passed by so swiftly? I loved Tully from the word go, picked it up and couldn’t put it down again until I’d finished.
Same with her next book Red Leaves and then Eleven Hours, which followed soon after that. Then came The Bronze Horseman set in Russia during WWII and I’m sad to say Paullina and I parted company there. While millions of people around the world bought and loved this book and its follow-up Tatiana & Alexander, I turned pages elsewhere.
This is my failing, not the author’s, I hasten to point out. I have some sort of syndrome with Russian books where I find it impossible to remember who is who and give up before I work it out. What a twit. Anyway, the heroine of Paullina’s new novel is 18-year-old Shelby Sloane – now there’s a name even a person with an addled brain can cling to. Shelby’s from upstate New York – but not for long. The plan is to drive her new yellow oustang across the US to California and look for her long-lost mother. Unfortunately for her, her old friend Gina comes along for the ride, causing problems right from the start. And unfortunately for them both, Candy Cane (another pearler on the name front), the hitchhiker they pick up along the way, brings trouble the likes of which none of them could ever have dreamed of.
A sort of Thelma and Louise (plus another Thelma) road trip in the search for life and meaning.
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