Review: Don't Cruise Past This Book!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2013
Irish author James Lawless' 'Finding Penelope' tells the story of Penelope Eames, a young writer from Dublin who travels to Spain to escape the drudgery of her family and home. She's also looking for her destiny, and thinks she's found it when she meets Ramón. As often happens, things are never as simple as they seem, and Penelope has to deal with her deadbeat brother back in Dublin before she can find true happiness. Some might call this novel 'chick-lit', but I was struck by the descriptive writing, wounded characters, and gritty depiction of everyone's broken circumstances. It's not a happy-ever-after kind of book, and all the better for it, in my opinion.