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She's Up to No Good: A Novel par Sara…
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She's Up to No Good: A Novel (édition 2022)

par Sara Goodman Confino (Auteur)

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For two women generations apart, going home will change their lives. Four years into her marriage, Jenna is blindsided when her husband asks for a divorce. With time on her hands and her life in flux, she agrees to accompany her eccentric grandmother Evelyn on a road trip to the seaside Massachusetts town where much of their family history was shaped. When they hit the road, Evelyn spins the tale of the star-crossed teenage romance that captured her heart more than seventy years ago and changed the course of her life. She insists the return to her hometown isn't about that at all--no matter how much she talks about Tony, her unforgettable and forbidden first love. Upon arrival, Jenna meets Tony's attentive great-nephew Joe. The new friendship and fresh ocean air give her the confidence and distance she needs to begin putting the pain of a broken marriage behind her. As the secrets and truths of Evelyn's past unfold, Jenna discovers a new side of her grandmother, and of herself, that she never knew existed--and learns that the possibilities for healing can come at the most unexpected times in a woman's life.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:She's Up to No Good: A Novel
Auteurs:Sara Goodman Confino (Auteur)
Info:Lake Union Publishing (2022), 395 pages
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This was a Kindle FirstReads pick for me way back in the summer, and I just got around to it. I found it interesting (well, most of it), and finished it in 3 days.

This story is about mid-30s Jenna, who has just gotten divorced and agrees to try and move on by accompanying her grandmother, who’s in her late 80s, on a road trip back to her hometown in Connecticut. Along the way and while there, both characters learn to move on with their lives, Jenna gets a second chance romance, and family secrets are revealed.

This was the feel-good, lighthearted read I’d been looking for. It’s told in a dual-timeline style, with historical aspects told in grandma Evelyn’s POV, and the present day told in Jenna’s POV. Evelyn was hilarious and reminded me a lot of my own grandma. I found the pacing to be good and writing was easy to read. And reading the descriptions of the scenes, I could easily imagine Hereford, CT.

The reunions in the present day were so sweet to read about, especially after reading the historical chapters. And there is a HEA ending for both Jenna and Evelyn.

I liked the historical chapters much more than the present-day ones. The characters were much more fleshed out and interesting, and Evelyn made a compelling protagonist. I found myself skimming through much of the present-day chapters, especially towards the middle and end of the book.

I also felt that Jenna and Joe’s romance fell flat. I didn’t have a great sense of any of them as characters and so did not feel any chemistry between them. I felt like Evelyn should have been the main character of this story - she was much more interesting than Jenna.

Overall a good read. I would definitely look for other books by this author. ( )
  galian84 | Dec 1, 2023 |
4.5⭐️

At the onset of this novel, we meet 34-year-old Jenna whose husband informs her that he is in love with another woman and no longer wants to be married to Jenna who, though aware of the cracks in their marriage, is taken aback by this revelation. Her marriage of four years is over.

Fast forward six months, Jenna is living in her childhood home with her parents and is still unable to come to terms with her marriage falling apart and the uncertainty in her future. Her parents, her mother, in particular, are trying to get her to venture out of the house and resume her life. Enter eighty-nine-year-old Evelyn Bergman Gold, Jenna’s grandmother who announces that she intends to drive from Maryland to her hometown of Hereford, Massachusetts to take care of family business. Jenna ends up volunteering to drive her grandmother and stay with her for the duration thereby ending her self-imposed isolation. What follows is an uproariously funny and eventful road trip with Evelyn sharing her own life story hoping to lift Jenna’s spirits and motivate her to move on with her life.

The narrative is split between two timelines - the present day following Jenna and Evelyn’s trip to Massachusetts and Evelyn’s story that follows her from a teenager in the 1950s and continues through the decades that follow. Evelyn is a force to be reckoned with! While her antics leave the reader in splits and Jenna constantly on her toes, her story, which she gradually reveals to Jenna is one of first love and heartbreak, family, loss, tragedy and the choices people make out of love for each other. She introduces Jenna to Joe, the grandnephew of Tony, her first love. Jenna, initially annoyed with Evelyn’s matchmaking efforts finds herself enjoying her time exploring the seaside town with Joe. Jenna slowly begins to come to terms with her impending divorce while also getting to know more about her mother’s side of the family. Evelyn’s story continues in the present day as well and more is revealed as the story progresses.

She's Up To No Good by Sarah Goodman Confino is a beautiful and heartwarming story about love, choices, family and second chances. This novel is full of heart (loved Evelyn!) and humor (with some major laugh-out-loud moments) and I enjoyed every moment of it. I look forward to reading more of the author’s books in the future.

Thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for a digital review copy of this entertaining and heartwarming novel in exchange for my honest review. This book is due to be released on August 1, 2022. ( )
  srms.reads | Sep 4, 2023 |
“Sometimes family makes things complicated. Sometimes the complicated part is in our own heads.” Jenna is depressed after being newly separated from her husband of four years. She joins her eccentric Grandma Evelyn on a driving trip to the seaside Massachusetts town where Evelyn grew up. During the drive Evelyn tells Jenna of her own teenage romance, a story new to Jenna.

The novel alternates between the present with Jenna adjusting to her recently single status and keeping tabs on her unpredictable grandma, and the 1950s of Evelyn’s youthful romance and the drama of her Jewish family.

I enjoyed both timelines, although the present day grandma was almost a caricature at times. This well-written book’s strength was its sense of family, their respect and loyalty for each other. Also, I enjoyed the way author Sara Goodman Confino incorporated the Jewish culture into the novel – the Yiddish phrases, the jokes, food, and traditions – as authentic as my own family’s heritage.

This was a sweet story of love, loss, healing, and forgiveness. And Confino doesn’t overdo the schmaltz, even when Evelyn tells Jenna, “Life is complicated and messy for everyone. It took me a long time to learn that lesson.” I recommend this feel-good novel of family and second chances. ( )
  PhyllisReads | Sep 8, 2022 |
This is not the kind of book that I read. I knew that when I picked it up. I don't do romance. But the cover looked fun and it was free as an Amazon First Read and it seemed a perfect fit for summer (if I read romance. Which I don't.) So I picked it up and gave it a try... and found myself staying up late to finish it one night because, by the final chapters, I had to know what happened.

At first, I thought the book was going to live down to my expectations. I couldn't take to Jenna. Her limp, curl-up-in-a-ball-in-my-childhood-bedroom-for-six-months response to her husband's infidelity and surprise demand for a divorce didn't endear her to me. Not that I couldn't see that as a possible reaction, I just wasn't up for a pity party.

Then, in chapter four, I met her grandmother, Evelyn and everything changed. Evelyn is irrepressible. She has her own agenda which she'll tell you about when it's time for you to know. She plays up being the confused old lady when it suits her and lies whenever she thinks that will help and she always has a plan. I'd happily have been a fly on the wall for any road trip she was making happen.

But the road trip didn't happen right away. Instead, chapter five took me to Hereford, Massachusetts in February 1950, when Evelyn was seventeen and the most impish of her mother's five daughters. I watched as she hooked up with an unsuitable (not Jewish) boy from a local Portuguese family and I could see the connection between this confident young woman and the unstoppable grandmother of the previous chapter. I can also see that the boy she's so enamoured of is not the man who would become Jenna's grandfather. So what's happening here?

From that point on, it was Evelyn, not Jenna who kept pulling me back to the book. She was the bridge between the two timelines that the story is told in and I wanted to know how she got from being a seventeen-year-old woman in love with a Portuguese boy to being the widow of a respectable Jewish businessman. But most of all, I wanted to know why she was going back to Hereford and why she had made sure that her granddaughter would be there with her.

It turned out that 'She's Up To No Good' wasn't a romance in the typical meet-cute / instalove followed by misunderstandings, followed by a Happy Ever After or Happy For Now ending. It was a Romance in that it invited you to believe in love and the way it shapes people's lives. Some of the situations had a hard-to-believe symmetry to them but the way in which they were written made you wish that life worked that way. There were moments of hardship and tragedy in the book but it was mostly an uplifting read with enough suspense and tension in it to keep me eagerly turning the pages.

Often, when I read a book told in two timelines, I find myself bored with the present-day timeline and eager to get back to the back-then timelines, where all the interesting things happen. This time, that didn't happen. Both timelines held my attention but the one I was most eager for was the present-day timeline. Why? Mostly because of Evelyn. Even though it is Jenna who is the narrator in the present-day timeline, it's Evelyn's energy, cunning, and zest for life that sets the tone of the narrative.

Evelyn is centre stage in the back-then timeline, but that's when all the bad stuff (as well as some good stuff) happens. It's where most of the tension and all of the angst come from. It's where I got to see Evelyn grow up to make a life that she loved even if she couldn't have the love of her life.

On the journey to Hereford, Evelyn starts to share her story with Jenna, always holding important things back to pique Jenna's interest and give her the occasional surprise In Hereford, the present day and back then timelines start to wrap around one another as Jenna meets the present day adult versions of the people who were children in her or teenagers in her grandmother narrative.

Jenna eventually became more interesting as she stopped mourning the loss of a marriage she'd already partially abandoned and discovered her family's links with the people in Hereford, her grandmother's life story and her own desire to embrace life again.

One of the things I liked most about the book was that the eighty-something Evelyn that I met in chapter four wasn't a faded version of the seventeen-year-old Evelyn that I met in chapter five. I liked both of them but it was the older version of Evelyn that I liked the most. She'd done more than survive. She'd never stopped making things happen.

So, I still don't read romance but I will be reading Sara Goodman Confino's next book. ( )
  MikeFinnFiction | Aug 25, 2022 |
Sara does it again with her newest book, She's Up to No Good. She's Up to No Good is a five star must read that will have you laughing and smiling along with Jenna and Evelyn. I am happy to report that Sara is an auto read/auto buy author. This book is in my top three favorite reads of 2022!

I literally read this whole book in one afternoon. I could not and would not stop reading. Jenna and Evelyn come from two different generations, but they bridge that gap on their road! trip. For me though, Evelyn is the star of this story. She kept me entertained with her stories and her sharp-witted tongue. I never knew what she would say next.

If you loved Sara's first book than you definitely have to pick up this one up. ( )
  Cherylk | Jul 31, 2022 |
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For two women generations apart, going home will change their lives. Four years into her marriage, Jenna is blindsided when her husband asks for a divorce. With time on her hands and her life in flux, she agrees to accompany her eccentric grandmother Evelyn on a road trip to the seaside Massachusetts town where much of their family history was shaped. When they hit the road, Evelyn spins the tale of the star-crossed teenage romance that captured her heart more than seventy years ago and changed the course of her life. She insists the return to her hometown isn't about that at all--no matter how much she talks about Tony, her unforgettable and forbidden first love. Upon arrival, Jenna meets Tony's attentive great-nephew Joe. The new friendship and fresh ocean air give her the confidence and distance she needs to begin putting the pain of a broken marriage behind her. As the secrets and truths of Evelyn's past unfold, Jenna discovers a new side of her grandmother, and of herself, that she never knew existed--and learns that the possibilities for healing can come at the most unexpected times in a woman's life.

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