Enjoyed this book and the characters. It was a good read I would recommend to all. The characters were likable and plot kept going at a nice pace.

A coming-of-age story - of a fiftysomething woman.
Margo is on the run in more than one sense, as the hot pursuit of her niece, the runaway bride, becomes also the way of reconnecting with her past, her family, her heritage, and her self - everything she has ever been trying to escape.

I have mixed feelings about this novel. I like the idea of fiftyish woman living in the past (even if she herself bottles this thing up, also with a couple of other things) and her way to become more of herself. But the author is trying too much here, throwing just too much ingredient onto the storytelling pot - the glamour of Hollywood Golden Age, the love for historical artefacts and their hidden value, the love lost and found and the gay rights. And there is no strong story to put all of these ingredients together.
It doesn't help that I am not the fan of Finn's story, as or offers too much false "understanding" compared to true growth.
But, somehow, the pain of Margo' s unrequited love is the only part of the book that rings emotionally true to me.
And this is how I will remember the book - as a story of one woman finally finding her place in life. Not bad!

This book left me with mixed emotions. I liked the start very much and I thought I was in for a lovely story, but I am sorry to say that there were a lot of parts that were less good. For me it had a lot of ups and downs. Unfortunately more downs than ups. For me the story did not fit a person of the age of the main character Margo. What I did like was the personal history of Margo and the bits of humour through the book.
2,5 stars.

This is good "beach reading." Hardly War & Peace, but it's a cute story and thank heavens the main character isn't another 20-something working for a bad boss who has a bad boyfriend and credit card debt. Some of the characters could have been more carefully defined, and some of the plot seems a bit improbable, but I enojyed it !