Cruise Ship Diaries

By Irene Magers Gingold

Cruise Ship Diaries is a story of life-changing decisions and second chances. When Margaret Maghpye, single and living in New York, is fired from her job, she exhausts her savings on a Mexican cruise,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142411618X
• ISBN13: 9781424116188
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Publishamerica Inc
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

MUST READ Romantic Adventure!! Couldn't put down!

This was a truly great read. It's about a forty-something woman named Maggie, who decides she needs a change of direction in her life, and heads out on a cruise. The adventures that befall her, and the colorful crew of characters he meets onboard make this a wonderfully vivid and engaging story. It's absolutely impossible to put down, overflowing with romantic intrigue, and offering a vicarious thrill ride through the exotic ports-of-call in Mexico. Highly recommended!

stunning message that the passengers have fun but beware

Cruise Ship Diaries Irene Magers Gingold Publish America, May 2006 ISBN: 142411618X In New York forty-four year old married trice but now single Margaret Maghpye is stunned when after twelve years at the firm she loses her position as a paralegal at Goodman, Barr & Noune. Her boss Laura Noune unfairly blames Margaret for poor research for a terrible day at court. Stunned and with no one to tie her down, Margaret decides she needs to escape her troubles and the wintry teen temperature of Manhattan so uses her meager savings to go on a Mexican cruise though she knows she cannot afford this financially. She prays this will lift her out of her growing depression. She flies to San Diego where she boards the Mexican Star for seventeen days and nights of what Margaret hopes is uplifting fun. However, instead of an upbeat time, Margaret feels the sexual shenanigans on board too overwhelming and the port stop at Acapulco too commercial. However, the topper occurs when an elderly passenger Francine Wirth is being tossed from the ship at a remote Mexican hospital because she suffered an injury, which cannot be treated by the ship's doctor; this stuns Margaret (and readers). On the plus side she meets and is attracted to passenger Michael Sanders, though he seems withdrawn. While he has a different agenda for being on this excursion, he cannot stop himself from wanting to spend time with Margaret. The sea cruise romance between the middle age couple is handled deftly as the two protagonists fear love, but cannot help themselves stop the attraction. However, what makes the CRUSIE SHIP DIARIES different than the myriad of ship romance novels is the insight into the downside of cruises in which the lines are held unaccountable once they cross into international waters as the Francine incident apparently is genuine. Irene Magers Gingold provides a delightful and charming contemporary with quite a stunning message that the passengers have fun but beware. Harriet Klausner