Claire Voyant

by Saralee Rosenberg

Of course the future is a mystery. But the past? This is nuts! Talk about ruin-your-day flights. I'm headed to Florida, when the elderly man seated next to me collapses on my tray table. I swear, if... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060584416
• ISBN13: 9780060584412
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Ms. Rosenberg takes us on a laugh and cry out loud journey!

Our reading group decided to try this book for our first title. I picked it up and could not put it down until I was done! I laughed AND cried and loved every minute of it. So many books are carelessly tossed into the "chick-lit" genre, but Claire Voyant certainly does not fit into that category. Yes, it is a story of a young women and how she falls in love. But more than anything, it is the journey of a lost person who felt something missing from her life all along. And our beloved character, Claire, literally must be knocked upside the head to open her eyes to how great her life is, was, and may be. What I loved about this book was that it really had a different element than a lot of novels I've read as of late. The introduction of a sixth sense in the story is done so well that it seems like the most natural thing in the world! And boy does it set up some funny and bittersweet moments! If you are a fan of Saralee Rosenberg, I know you'd stand beside me in recommending this book to all women - age not being a factor. It's a great read and I'm glad that I discovered it! Now I'm off to read Saralee's other novel and I hope it's as great as Claire Voyant! P.S. Check out Saralee's web site. It's is so well done and currently themed to this book. As an added bonus, you can even listen to Saralee read the entire first chapter with the click of a mouse! Just go to: http://www.saraleerosenberg.com

Loved it!!

This book is a very funny, but also a heart warming and meaningful, story about family told through a quite funny and appealing character named Claire. I couldn't put the book down and even found myself looking forward to the commute so I could read more. While the book offers great humor and romance, the themes are actually quite deep in terms of the analysis of family relations and fate. In short, if you are looking for a thoroughly enjoyable read, give this a try!

The funniest book I've read in a long time...

I was first attracted to the book because of its catchy cover, and after reading the front and back cover, I knew I had to have it! I read Claire Voyant in 2 days because I just couldn't put it down. Saralee Rosenberg amazingly made an otherwise dramatic story into the most hilarious book I've read, even more so than the Shopaholic's series. While reading it, my husband mentioned that he's never seen me laugh so much with any other book, and I agree. Even though this book can be seen or is a chick lit , trust me when I say, ANYONE WHO LOVES A GOOD LAUGH WILL ENJOY THIS BOOK! The funny ideas/things the author comes up with are definitely things that everyone can relate to. Saralee Rosenberg is my new favorite author!

A Buoyant Claire Voyant

Though some frequent flyers might fear their lives ending on an airplane, not many expect that mid-air is where their new lives might begin, but that is what happens to beautiful, self-absorbed, and unemployed fanny model, Claire Green. This is a wonderful story-although be warned that it's also quite addictive-like the old potato chip commercial, you can't read just one page. I found myself unable to stop reading, no matter how late the hour, or how early I had to get up. Claire never expects that when her flight takes off, what she's left behind is not just her family, her friends and her life - but also the person she'd always thought she'd been. CLAIRE VOYANT is not only about her search for identity, and the chance meeting with a stranger who will completely change her life's direction, but also about the ways in which we are actually all connected, and how flexible the notion of "family" really can be. This is a fabulous book - funny, warm, hopeful and wise. It takes everything you though you knew about family, dismantles it, and then puts it back together with the strongest and sweetest of glues. I loved this book and I can't recommend it highly enough. Cheers, Saralee Rosenberg, for your insightful, generous, and loving new novel.

Witty, among most satisfyingly delicious books in the genre

After a less-than-stellar day I had run to the bookstore for sanctuary and took this book home. Before I knew it, it was 7 am - I had not been able to put it down! I had devoured it in one sitting. It was delightful. One of those books you read on the airplane or train or bus, and suddenly let out a huge, semi-hysterical belly-laugh that makes all your fellow passengers frightened. Filled with the kind of delicious wit where you wish you had been the first one to say it just like that, because goodness knows you thought it. It had been like spending a day with your best girlfriend, talking about all the crazy things in your life, and feeling you were understood. What I think impressed me most, was that about a third of the way through I thought to myself: "This book is on such a high upward arc, and the tension is building and the surprises are compiling, there is no way, I fear, for the author to A) sustain it, let alone B) keep it building even more." So, I kept bracing myself for the moment when the book would fall flat and disappoint me (because let's face it, how many times has that happened in the movie theater or when reading a book). Imagine my surprise and gratitude when the book only kept getting better, never let me down, and actually delivered on all its promises and on my high hopes for a brilliant read. Not at all a hackney'd audience-underestimating book like so many, but a literary, literate, intelligently written book with fully fleshed-out characters whose emotions and reactions were realistic even when embroiled in stranger-than-fiction circumstances. A book that provided enjoyment for the mind as well as spirit. If you want a book that will brighten the darkest dumps and leave you in satisfied-reader heaven, this is the book. I'm buying my best friend and mom each a copy and putting Saralee Rosenberg's name at the top of my "must-read-the-moment-the-new-book-comes-out" list of authors.