Flying Lessons

by Peggy Webb

Flying Lessons by Peggy Webb released on Apr 25, 2006 is available now for purchase. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373880928
• ISBN13: 9780373880928
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Harlequin Next
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.6"

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Flying Lessons

FLYING LESSONS by Peggy Webb July 12, 2006 Rating **** Beth is not happy in her marriage to boring, predictable husband Howard Martin. There was a time when she loved his quirks, and his need to be routine. But now she is frustrated and is not sure what she wants out of life. All he does is irritate her. The story opens with Beth and her best friend Jane, an older woman who Beth looks up to for friendship as well as for advice and strength. Jane supports Beth the way Beth needs it, unlike Howard who hasn't a clue as to what is on Beth's mind. Opposites attract, as they say, and Beth is the opposite of Howard - she's creative and hates routine, is unpredictable and is a free spirit. She now has a need to spread her wings. However, she has devoted her adult life to her husband and her two children, and she feels she's missed something all these years because she gave up some of her passions. There's that symphony she's been trying to write for the past twenty years. Yes, she blames her lack of creativity on her boring marriage. She also has a problem with how Howard deals with their younger daughter Jenny, who is also ready to spread her own wings. While older daughter Kate takes after daddy, Jenny is more like Beth, a free spirit who baffles Howard to no end. He is doing his best to bring her back down to solid ground, but Beth knows that if Howard forces his ways on their youngest, they may lose her for good. FLYING LESSONS is about a woman who has a need to spread her wings and fly, to try things that she felt she couldn't do before, because she felt duty-bound in her married life. It's a classic case in which a middle-aged woman, finding that her children are out of the house, realizes that life has passed her by. Beth runs away and goes off to a quiet beach resort town where she makes new friends and even meets a man that she is attracted to. She also works on that symphony, and she learns a thing or two about herself. Older women may connect with Beth, because Beth's life is not uncommon. She's done the right thing, given up her own needs for her family, and now that she sees Howard for who he really is, all she feels toward him is annoyance and irritation. Readers will root for Beth as she tries to discover who she really is, as she goes off on her own to reflect about her life and where she wants to go next. When she connects with an older couple she meets at the beach, it gives her time to contemplate what she thinks a perfect marriage should be, and she envies them as she sees them walk hand in hand every day as she tries to compose her twenty year old symphony. The reader will be touched as she sheds a tear or two, feeling sorry for herself. And while she isn't sure she wants to be with Howard again, the reader will know that deep down, she still loves him despite everything. This reviewer loved FLYING LESSONS, for its realistic characters and story line that many will be able to relate to. These are every day people

Bound for the Best Seller List!

Webb has succeeded in writing another powerful novel that keeps you revetted to the story from page 1 to the end! As an avid reader of Webb's spectacular novels, I know that you will be spellbound with this latest one. If you have ever uttered the words, "I would like to run away," don't miss this adventure with Beth Martin as she searches for excitement and change. You can flow through the gamut of emotions that one experiences when trying the unknown. "Flying Lessons" is a great addition for your personal book collection. If you enjoyed reading "Driving Me Crazy," you will be equally delighted with this latest Webb masterpiece!

sensational character study

Fifty-three years old Beth Holt Martin think her life stinks as she is bored of being the dull spouse of nice psychiatrist Dr. Howard Martin. She knows there has to be more to life and that her feelings of discontentment have nothing to do with the empty nest that she now rules over. However, what makes everything hit home is a d?j? vu observation of her oldest daughter reliving her life Beth decides to find the missing woman she once was by seeking out the dreams she had in her youth. She leaves Howard behind on a quest to seek her lost soul for she plans to spread her wings and fly solo though at the end of the rainbow she may come back to Howard; assuming he waits for her. The key that makes FLYING LESSONS a sensational character study is not the heroine seeking her wings, but the support cast; Howard and the kids are nice people so that Beth's dissatisfaction with life cannot be blamed on negativity by them. Instead the people in her life depend on her as they know she is a loving person. Thus when the fiftyish Beth wonders what happened to her dreams and begins an allegorical quest to find them, the audience obtains a well written deep drama of people doing the best they could while making solid choices that seem right then but years later haunt them with what if. Peggy Webb writes a wonderful tale that the contemporary crowd will devour. Harriet Klausner