Fun Novel with a Strong Mature Female Protagonist

by Susan Roberts

 

In this funny and inspiring novel, a mess of a heroine is desperate to resolve her past so she can finally rediscover who she was always meant to be.

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July 2024; Montlake;  978-1662522918
audio, ebook, print (332 pages); women's fiction

Boss Lady has one of the elements that I really enjoy in a novel - a strong older woman who is working hard to make a better life for herself and her children.  Along with a strong main character, there is a bit of romance, an overbearing mother, and friends who are always there when she needs them to be her support group.

Toni is a 40-ish-year-old mom to two teenage girls.  Her husband left several years earlier to 'find himself' and she's taken a job driving an airport shuttle to keep food on the table.  She dreams of owning her own business and spends a lot of time trying out new ideas.  Her friends are very supportive of her goal as is an elderly woman who she frequently shuttles to her airplane.  Mrs. Eisenberg is a very wealthy elderly woman and is one of her biggest cheerleaders and advisors.  Throw Mrs. Eisenberg's grandson, Ash,  into the mix.  He is on a show similar to Shark Tank that tries to help entrepreneurs get money for the start-up of their business venture.  Can she get on the show to pitch her latest idea -- and what is her wandering husband doing appearing on the same show to pitch his idea??   There seem to be some sparks between Toni and Ash -- will that help her get backing for her latest idea?  

I really liked the character of Toni - she was a hard worker who was always thinking about ways to improve her life. She's spent so much of her life trying to come up with a business idea and as I read the book, I had my fingers crossed that she would succeed.  When her husband shows up again, she has to decide whether to go back to her unfulfilling marriage or to continue to work to start up her own business.  Mrs. Eisenberg always has good advice for her as do her friends at the airport.  This book is a fun read with some laughs along the way.  It's the first book that I've read by these authors and the reviews indicate that a lot of people liked their previous books, so I plan to look at some of their other books.  

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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is two hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west.  She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.   

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