Driving with the Top Down

By: Beth Harbison

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Three women, two weeks, one convertible: Sometimes life doesn't take you in the direction you expect. Colleen Bradley is married with a teenage son, a modest business repurposing and reselling antiques, and longtime fear that she was not her husband's first choice. When she decides to take a road trip down the east coast to check out antique auctions for her business, she also has a secret ulterior motive. Her one-woman mission for peace of mind is thrown slightly off course when 16-year-old Tamara becomes her co-pilot. The daughter of Colleen's brother-in-law, Tamara is aware that when people see her as a screw-up, but she knows in her heart that she's so much more. She just wishes her father could see it, too. The already bumpy trip takes another unexpected turn when they stop at the diner that served as Colleen's college hangout and run into her old friend Bitty Nolan Camalier. Clearly distressed, Bitty gives them a story full of holes: Angry with her husband, she took off on her own, only to have her car stolen. Both Colleen and Tamara sense that there's more that Bitty isn't sharing, but Colleen offers to give Bitty a ride to Florida. So one becomes two becomes three as Colleen, Tamara, and Bitty make their way together down the coast. It's a road trip fraught with tension as Tamara's poor choices come back to haunt her and Bitty's secrets reach a boiling point. With no one to turn to but each other, these three women might just discover that you can get lost in life but somehow, true friends provide a roadmap to finding what you’re really looking for.

©2014 Beth Harbison (P)2014 Macmillan Audio

heart warming at any age

great narrator. amazing story about inner strength and personal peace and growth. relatable at 30 or 16

Good, light read

Fluffy happy fun, good beach book between the mystery and horror I normally read :)

Driving with the top down

The stories of three women converge and a road trip happens.A really good story narrated nicely by Ortagh Cassidy.
I was given this book by the narrator,author or publisher free for an honest review.

Great story and narrator!

This was a good story line with interesting twists that smoothly let you into the back stories of each character. It has a complete beginning and end, with no loose ends leaving you wondering. Add to that the narrator. She was fabulous going from one character to the other and nailing the voice I would have heard in my head had I been reading it.

Great story, narrator, and characters!

what a great book! this was my first Beth Harbison book but it won't be my last. I enjoyed the storyline, characters, and the narratir was spot on!