Flirting with Pete

By: Barbara Delinsky

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

In Flirting with Pete, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky weaves together two fascinating narratives that merge in a dramatic, highly emotional, and totally unexpected conclusion, as a daughter's struggle to win the approval of the father she never knew becomes a journey of self-discovery.

Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father—but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigmatic gardener. When she finds a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of one of her father's patients in her new home, she becomes engrossed in the story of Jenny, a young woman trying to escape her troubled life. Convinced the story is true and that her father left it as a message for her, Casey digs deeper. As she pieces together the mysteries surrounding her father, Jenny, and the romantic new stranger in her life, she discovers startling links between past and present, and unexpected ties between what is real and what is imagined.

A Favorite!

One of my top three books by the author. This is my third listen and it gets better and a bit more "too good to be true" with each listen. But that's okay, fairy tails are like that, read through the filter of age. I still learn from it each time, and that after all is why I love reading her books. That and her ability to make the flowers in her garden so beautiful and real that when I close my eyes I can actually smell them. Oh how I do love this book!

Good story!

Enjoyable read, and would definitely read it again. Its not an epic novel, but makes you glad you spent the time reading it!

wonderful presentation, riveting story

the author makes these characters live, the narrator keeps you on the edge of suspense. loved the ending, used lots of tissue

Took Me a minute to figure out everything

Good story. It took me a bit to figure out everything, which means it was well written in my book. The narrator was good as well.

A superb narration, good story too

Enjoyed this story of 2 women on oddly parallel tracks despite huge differences in their environment and consequent opportunities. More than the story however, I found the narration absolutely superb. It's strange because I've often found this narrator too gritty or something, but for this story, she was a perfect match. Great timing and interpretation of the various characters.