I enjoyed this chick lit beach read about an 80 year old woman, Kathleen, who doesn’t want to give up on life. She decides to go on a road trip on Route 66 from Chicago to California and hire a driver to go with her.

Warm and spontaneous, Martha, running away from her dead-end life, gets the job, and this story follows the two of them on their trip, as well as Kathleen’s stressed out daughter back at home in England.  All three are transformed in the process.

The chapters alternate between the three characters and their perspectives, and that seems to cause more repetition of details than I prefer. Regardless of that flaw, I still enjoyed this escape of a book. It felt like a perfect read for the beginning of summer, and was a great “palette cleanser” between some more serious reading I’ve been doing lately.

If you want a low stakes read that is easy going, a bit sexy, and lightly diverting, while progressive in tone, you might enjoy The Summer Seekers. I give it four stars.