Not for serious readers. Chick lit only.

The book is a quick, light, at times fun, fluff/fuzzy piece of writing. Lily is an underdeveloped character who starts out as a self-absorbed young girl and does not grow, change, or mature through her experiences/memoirs. She isn't a particularly good mother, wife, sister, daughter, or friend. There are several long, meaningless passages of "over-the-top" descriptions that drag on the story line. If the author had written the novel in a shorter time span, this reader feels the story would have been more clear, more focused, and more concise/tight. As it was, the reader could not truly identify with the main characters or care about them and what happened to them, as they were more charactures instead of real people. The story rambled, moved in strange, illogical ways, and had too many unnecessary, non-developed characters. The ending seemed a bit too contrived.

There are, however, some things to enjoy about the novel. The premise of a 50 something woman spending a month alone with a typewriter in a cottage on the coast of France could certainly appeal to many readers. Also, readers could probably transport themselves with the descriptions of place (Idaho, Wisconsin, cottage in France). The scene of Lily burning the papers in the fireplace is well done. The idea of the typewriter becoming a character is unique and interesting; however, the cat (and the writer's explanation at the back of the book) is a stretch, at best. Other than criticisms of the writing, and maybe a fantasy or two, my book group didn't find much to discuss in the book and would not recommend it to another group.

A fast read. Lily seemed to be very self absorbed.She and alonso seemed a lot alike in many ways. It was interesting how the author used the typewriter almost like a charater and named the book.

Although our book club had a good discussion about this book I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
I found Lily's character under developed and lacking depth. She is a self-absorbed, needy woman who seems disinterested in her children, unhappy in her marriage and as far as her travels are concerned she seems to be looking for what she evidently finds missing in her personal life.
Thankfully I did not buy this book!

I won this book for our book club. We hadn't read it yet, but I did and I DO NOT recommend that we read it. It was silly and boring and I was really surprised to get a book like this from this website! Usually the books recommended here are very good. This was like a bad romance novel. I was very disappointed.

ok, fine for the beach. there was no star between 2 and 3 on the above choices. I would have given it a 2.5.