Sweet Dreams at the Goodnight Motel

by Curtiss Ann Matlock

Book Overview

"Looking for Real Life..."The graffiti scrawled on the ladies' room wall was an abrupt wake-up call for 40-year-old divorc e Claire Wilder. Grabbing tattered courage, she jettisons her current... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077832091X
• ISBN13: 9780778320913
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Place To Belong

Sweet Dreams At The Goodnight Motel by Curtiss Ann Matlock is a 4 star book. It was good. It had me wondering what was going to happen.Claire is a woman in her 40's and she leaves her home in Shreveport and goes to Valentine,Oklahoma. And through the book Claire comes to terms with things and also finds a place she belongs.

Just a great fun read

I LOVED this book! It was just a nice, fun read. Light but not mindless. This is the first book I've read by Curtiss Ann Matlock and today I am off to the library to find more :)

Another Great Chapter in the Story of Valentine, OK

Curtiss Ann Matlock does not disappoint in her latest installment on our friends in the little town of Valentine, Oklahoma. The story includes the usual cast of interesting characters like Vella, Winston, Maralee, Tate, Corrine, etc. and adds a few new ones like Claire Wilder, who finds a way to move beyond her failed marriage as she learns to trust her heart, and Sherrilyn Earles a naive young women who needs someone like Claire to step in and offer unconditional friendship, and to show her that she can make her own way in this world. I can't wait for the next book!

warm tale

In Shreveport, Legal Secretary Claire Wilder receives an epiphany when she reads a message on a bathroom door of a truck stop about "... looking for life". Claire concludes she wasted the last two years of her life working for a crappy boss while waiting for Andrew, her former spouse of almost two decades, to realize he made a mistake leaving her for a younger woman. She decides to leave town to find her estranged father who she has not seen since he walked out on her and her mother when Claire was a little girl. Just before leaving Andrew tells her he wants to come back to Claire, but she says she will consider this when she comes back from Oklahoma. After quitting her job, she travels to Valentine, Oklahoma, the last place where she knew her dad lived. In Valentine, few people remember her dad and those that do recall very little about him. However, Claire is adopted by nonagenarian Winston Valentine, becomes close friends with septuagenarian drugstore owner Vella Blaine, and "adopts" abandoned pregnant teen Sherrilyn Earles even as Deputy Sheriff Travis Ford keeps a close eye on her. Claire is happy with her new relationships until Andrew arrives expecting she will take him back. The latest visit to Valentine is a warm tale starring a coming of age (though Claire is middle age) woman seeking a modicum of happiness in a life that she feels has past her by with little contentment. The support cast in Louisiana and Oklahoma enable the reader to see the transformation of Claire through their eyes. The story line is character driven as Claire seeks her roots and finds a life. Harriet Klausner