The Getaway Girls- Dee MacDonald 5*

Three women set off on an adventure driving to Italy in a motorhome. Three women who
don't even know each other that well having only met at a local class that they attend.
Connie has found some old letters and believes that she has long lost relatives on the
Amalfi coast and wants to grab the opportunity whilst she can. Maggie has had enough
of her partner Ringer who she knows is rather dodgy but fell in love with him many
years before and now has just had enough. Gill needs a change in life in more ways
than one and so the three amigos set off. On Maggie’s last night at home she finds
something of a bonus. A bonus that may have repercussions. This is a wonderful
pick-me-up read with a smile on every page. Ladies of “more mature” years
(Send All Geriatrics Abroad- Saga- love it!) who have seen it all, Ok not where they
are travelling, but have certainly tasted life in all of its forms. I could see this as a
film with Maggie being someone like Julie Walters, and Gill being Celia Imrie.
Connie- maybe Dame Judi Dench. You get the idea, three women doing something
that most would think beyond them and pushing each other in different ways at
the same time. Living life to the full and finding friends in others they would
never have thought likely One life live it.