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In this heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of Must Love Dogs and Wallflower in Bloom, a recently separated woman faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school reunion.
Years ago, Melanie followed her husband, Kurt, from the New England beach town where their two young sons were thriving to the suburbs of Atlanta. She's carved out a life as a successful metal sculptor, but when Kurt leaves her for another woman, having the tools to cut up their marriage bed is small consolation. She's old enough to know that high school reunions are often a big disappointment, but when her best friend makes her buy a ticket and an old flame gets in touch to see whether she'll be going, she fantasizes that returning to her past might help her find her future...until her driving phobia resurfaces and threatens to hold her back from the adventure of a lifetime.
Time Flies is an epic road trip filled with fun, heartbreak, and friendship, and explores what it takes to conquer your worst fears...so you can start living your future.
"More than a beach read, Claire Cook's Time Flies is an absorbing and humorous look at lives lived during
a particular era. . . . The author's facility with setting evocative scenes
past and present is refreshing." - New York Journal of Books
"Full of engaging characters and humorous situations. . . . This
lighthearted story will have readers plumbing its hidden depths and enjoying
the ride." - Romance Reviews Today
- Sales Rank: #167650 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-06-11
- Released on: 2013-06-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Time Flies is a spunky, lighthearted road trip down memory lane as two best friends reunite for their high-school reunion and challenge their fears. Years ago, Melanie left her friends and native New England to follow her husband to Atlanta, uprooting their two young sons. Now at midlife, she’s a recently separated, self-employed metal sculptor with a fear of highways, sawing her marriage bed into disposable chunks and bending the springs into art. When her best friend urges her to return home for their class reunion, Melanie’s driving phobia kicks in, and she begs off. But it’s hard to resist when an old crush she can barely remember lures her with his flirtatious e-mails. So she takes the plunge. What follows is a lot of reminiscing to the soundtrack of the good old days when the BFs finally meet up for their driving adventure. The banter is a lot of fun, and the characters’ realization of what is important is certain to make readers yearn for reconnections of their own. Another delightful beach read from the author of Wallflower in Bloom (2012). --Diane Holcomb
Review
“Full of engaging characters and humorous situations. . .This lighthearted story will have readers plumbing its hidden depths and enjoying the ride.” (Romance Reviews Today)
"Genuine, deftly drawn characters. . . [Cook's] poignancy and sassy humor resonate with readers; her theme of reinvention, uplifts and inspires. . . . It's the perfect companion for an afternoon under a beach umbrella with sand between your toes." (Savannah Magazine)
"The perfect summer beach read...Funny, charming, and downright lovable!" (Times Record News)
"This beach-bag-worthy story is one that may appeal to those who can commiserate with starting over." (Free Lance-Star)
"Laugh-out-loud funny. . .Time Flies is the perfect novel to read on your summer vacation or while lounging by the pool." (The News-Gazette)
"A summer book list isn't complete without a Claire Cook book on it." (Examiner.com)
"[Cook] delivers again. . . . Past and present riotously collide and give birth to an ending as heartfelt as it is hopeful." (Shelf Awareness)
“A spunky, lighthearted road trip down memory lane...The banter is a lot of fun, and the characters’ realization of what is important is certain to make readers yearn for reconnections of their own. Another delightful beach read from the author of Wallflower in Bloom.” (Booklist)
"After accompanying Melanie and B.J on their hysterical road trip, readers will feel like they’ve made friends for life." (Kirkus Reviews)
“A funny, bittersweet novel . . . Fans of Elizabeth Buchan and Mary Kay Andrews will enjoy Cook's strong characters and the sense of humor that infuses her latest heartwarming novel.” (Library Journal)
“More than a beach read, Claire Cook’s Time Flies is an absorbing and humorous look at lives lived during a particular era. . . . The author’s facility with setting evocative scenes past and present is refreshing.” (New York Journal of Books)
"Time Flies shows it's never too late to reinvent yourself. . . . [A] charming saga." (Boston Globe)
"[Cook's] characters are always looking for the next exciting chapter in their lives and her tenth novel, Time Flies, takes her trademark theme in a thought provoking new direction. . . .The resulting story is both touching and hilarious." (Bourne Courier)
"Claire Cook has an original voice, sparkling style, and a window into family life that will make you laugh and cry." (Adriana Trigiani )
“Reading Claire Cook might be the most fun you have all summer.” (Elin Hilderbrand )
"Charming, engagingly quirky, and full of fun, Claire Cook just gets it.” (Meg Cabot )
“Readers will hope that Claire Cook will be telling breezy summer stories from the South Shore of Massachusetts for seasons to come.” (The Washington Post)
“A fun and inspiring read . . . Cook’s humor and narrative execution is impeccable; Deirdre’s increasing self-consciousness elicits support for her to overcome insecurity and endure in her journey to find happiness and fulfillment on her own terms.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Filled with sweet humor and all the eye-rolling moments of jumbled yet ultimately loving family relations, romance, and coming into one’s own, this women’s fiction is a definite pleaser for devotees of the genre.” (Booklist)
“Cook’s penchant for hitting the emotional sore spot and combining it with humor hits the mark. ... A thoroughly enjoyable and amusing read, this story is sure to delight.” (New York Journal of Books)
“Cook has a light, fun voice and always infuses her stories with great wit and heart.” (Cape Cod Times)
From the Author
© 2013 Claire CookTIME FLIES Chapter 1When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress. I put down my chainsaw carefully so it wouldn't scratch the hardwood floor. Then I slid my safety glasses up to the top of my head like a headband and reached for my phone. "Hello-oh," I said. "Hey," B.J. said. "It's me. What's up?" I puffed a sprinkling of sawdust from the phone. "Not much. Same old, same old." "So, check your email--the invitation just went out. You are coming up for our reunion, right?" "No way." When I shook my head for emphasis, more sawdust flaked from my hair like dandruff. "Come on, B.J., we've been over this at least eight times already." B.J. blew a raspberry into the phone line. "No way is not an acceptable answer. You're going. No excuses. You're not still mooning around about Kurt, are you?" "You mean like counting the days till he sends me a Hallmark card for Almost Ex-Wife's Day?" B.J. still laughed exactly like she had in high school, a series of sharp staccato barks. "See, your sense of humor is back." "Ha," I said. "What you need is some fun in the sun. Plus, if you ask me, there aren't nearly enough opportunities to act like a teenager once you get to be our age, so we've got to grab any chance we get. And the good news is we can drink legally this time around." "Great," I said, "but I'm still not going." "Jan wants all of us to stay at her beach house for the week--" "Jan who?" "Don't give me Jan who. Jan Siskin. Actually, I think it's Reeves now. Or maybe it was Reeves but it's now Schroff. Or maybe it's Siskin again. Who cares. Anyway, as you well remember, we kind of hung out with her all four years in high school. And now she has a beach house." "I don't think she really even liked me," I said. B.J. aimed a blast of air across seven states and into my ear. "Hey, you haven't heard from Veronica, have you?" I sighed. "You mean in this millennium?" "She's not returning my phone calls or emails. But. She. Will." I let B.J.'s tenacity wash over me like a wave. When I looked down, I saw that my non-cell phone-holding palm was open, face up, as if to emphasize my own uncertainty. B.J. was still talking. "So, you know how I'm on the committee, right. Well, we've decided we're not going to mention either the year we graduated or how many years it's been. We're just going to call it The Marshbury High School Best Class/Best Reunion Evah." "That's ridiculous." I opened one of the French doors to the deck off the master bedroom to get rid of the gasoline smell. I seriously needed to upgrade to a battery-operated chainsaw. "Well, the committee consensus is that the actual numbers might be a turnoff. It's a lot of years to wrap your brain around, and none of us feel that old, and most of us don't look that old, especially the women, so we just thought it would be more fun if we focused on the positive." "Which would be?" B.J. let out a little snort. "That we're still alive?" I took a quick stab at the math, then gave up. "How many years has it been anyway?" "Don't even think about it," B.J. said. "It's way too depressing. Come on, Mel, we haven't seen each other in forever." "Okay, so how about you go to the reunion, and then you can fly down here and tell me all about it." "Mel, I'm serious." "Me, too. I'm seriously not going, B.J., so drop it. Please." "Give me one good reason you shouldn't go." I sighed. "Everyone else will dress better, look better, be better than I am. High school reunions are like a test for personal success and I'll slide right off the bell curve. I'm not famous, I didn't turn into a knockout, my husband left me. And I stopped wearing heels years ago and now my feet will only tolerate work boots and flip-flops." "One good reason," B.J. said. "I'm still waiting." After we hung up, I put my cell phone down and contemplated the savaged chunks of king size bed before me. It's not that I was bitter. I mostly just wanted the springs. * Okay, maybe I was a teensy bit bitter. Our two sons, Trevor and Troy, were seven and six when Kurt had dragged me kicking and screaming to the suburbs of Atlanta. They were thriving on sandy summers boogie-boarding at the beach and snowy winters sledding down the biggest hill in our little seaside Massachusetts town. We lived a tree-lined walk away from the best local elementary school. I had a boring but comfortable part-time job answering phones for a nearby art gallery that let me work my hours around my kids. Mothers' hours. Life was good. Kurt said his job offer had come out of the blue. As if it were luck. Or destiny. Kismet. Serendipity. His old boss had taken a job at a big Atlanta corporation a few years before, where he'd been moving up ever since. And now he wanted Kurt to come work for him. "Out of the blue," I repeated as I stirred a pot of homemade chicken alphabet soup with a wooden spoon. "He just called you out of the blue and said uproot your whole family and take them away from everything they've ever loved because I have a job for you. Even though you already have a perfectly good job." Trevor ran through the kitchen and out the back door. "Give it back," Troy yelled as he ran after him. "Dinner," I yelled. "Ten minutes." Kurt shrugged. He loosened the blue-striped tie I'd bought because it reminded me of the way his eyes changed shades in different lights. He unbuttoned the top button of his white shirt. Long-sleeved. Extra starch. I stared him down. In the fading light of the early evening, his eyes were a dark navy, almost black. He looked away first. I flicked on the kitchen lights and turned my attention back to the soup. "Smells good," he said as I stirred. I kept stirring. "Okay, I put out a few feelers," he finally said. "It's time to move on. I think I've taken things as far as I can here." For a quick, crazy second I thought he was talking about the boys and me. * After I loaded the bed chunks into heavy-duty black plastic contractor bags and dragged them out to the garage, I vacuumed the bedroom. Then I hauled my mattress-flecked self into the bathroom and turned on the water. It sputtered like it always did, then burst forth in a ferocious battle of brushed nickel showerheads and body jets. I peeled off my clothes and let the wet needles pummel me like a bad marriage. I towel-dried while I contemplated putting on actual pants, the kind that zipped and buttoned at the waist and everything. This seemed extreme, so I went with my regular uniform: yoga pants, baggie T-shirt, flip-flops. As soon as I opened the barn doors on one side of my Honda Element, I leaned in and flipped one of the two back seats forward at the waist. Then I lifted the whole seat up and hooked it to the side of the car with the carabiner that dangled from the ceiling. I circled the car and repeated the steps on the other side. An amazing amount of empty space materialized, anchored by the Element's black nonslip rubber-matted floor, which actually hosed down for easy cleaning. I wanted a house like that. "All aboard," I said in my cheeriest talking-out-loud-to-yourself voice. "Next stop Ikea."
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Surprisingly Good!
By booklove
I cannot tell a lie. I normally don't gravitate toward the women's lit genre, but I found Time Flies by Claire Cook to be surprisingly good. My surprise is in no way meant as a disparaging comment on Claire Cook's skills as an author. In fact it is meant as a compliment. She has created a wonderful book in a genre I usually don't like.
The dialogue between Melanie and her best friend, B.J., is witty and real and just the type of banter you'd expect from two women who have been friends since high school. This dynamic makes me long for my own friends in high school with whom I've lost contact. But life goes on, as they say, and that is also one of the themes of this book. Whether we like it or not, life goes on. Sometimes it takes us to wonderful places and sometimes we wonder how we ever ended up where we are today.
Melanie comes face to face with where her life has led her, and she must deal with and own up to her part. In many ways this book is the story of a woman finally having her coming of age as an unexpectedly single empty-nester. Ms. Cook does a wonderful showing how Melanie faces (or not) the changes in her life and the confusion with how she's supposed to deal with things. There's no right or wrong answer, but rather finding value in oneself and deciding what is best.
As these two women prepare to attend their long-awaited high school reunion, both realize that their lives are good and they've been lucky so far. And while most of the trip does not measure up to the lofty pedestal Melanie has placed it upon, she comes to realize that the quick fix and rose-colored glasses aren't the best answer to her challenges in life. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good story about navigating the twists and turns of life.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
FUN and POIGNANT!
By Beth Hoffman
Several months ago I read an advanced copy of Claire Cook's TIME FLIES, and from page one I was cheering for the main character, Melanie. Melanie is lovable, and real, and silly ... someone I would like to be friends with. She tells her story with heart and humor, and she exposes her vulnerability during a time when her life has been turned upside down. TIME FLIES is a rollicking fun yet poignant novel that's sure to hit home with anyone who has ever experienced heartbreak, fought against a phobia, entertained a fantasy, or dared to say yes to an unknown future peeking above the horizon of midlife. Claire Cook has crafted another winner that's guaranteed to be a favorite of book clubs and shared among girlfriends. Run out and buy this one, and pick up several copies as gifts!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Claire Cook does it again - a perfect summer read
By Laurie Nerat
I love Claire Cook and this book was no exception, she is the master of reinvention. This book was such a fun trip back down memory lane, I felt like I was riding along in the car with Mel and BJ as they got ready for their high school reunion. The only disappointing part about this book was when it ended. Some younger readers may not get some of the references, but if you are over 40, try to find yourself a 'Tab' and kick back for a great read.
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