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I Thought You Said This Would Work
A General Fiction Novel by Ann Garvin
Subgenres:
- Women's Fiction,
- Friendship Fiction,
- Road Trip Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Road trips with ex-best friends on a wild mission
- Messy friendship drama with a dash of celebrity chaos
- Funny, heartfelt stories about forgiveness and second chances
From Little Stack
Samantha and Holly are nothing alike. But when their mutual friend Katie is hospitalized with cancer, these two former best friends reunite on a road trip to pick up Katie’s dog in Utah before driving to her home in Wisconsin.
Throw in a random celebrity who joins the trip, a little light crime, and romantic entanglements along the way, and you have the ingredients for a hilarious and moving story of three unlikely people coming together.
If you enjoy reading about female friendships, forgiveness, or road trips where anything can happen, it’s worth a spot on your to-read list!
A road trip can drive anyone over the edge—especially two former best friends—in bestselling author Ann Garvin's funny and poignant novel about broken bonds, messy histories, and the power of forgiveness.
Widowed Samantha Arias hasn't spoken to Holly Dunfee in forever. It's for the best. Samantha prefers to avoid conflict. The blisteringly honest Holly craves it. What they still have in common puts them both back on speed dial: a mutual love for Katie, their best friend of twenty-five years, now hospitalized with cancer and needing one little errand from her old college roomies.
It's simple: travel cross-country together, steal her loathsome ex-husband's VW camper, find Katie's diabetic Great Pyrenees at a Utah rescue, and drive him back home to Wisconsin. If it'll make Katie happy, no favor is too big (one hundred pounds), too daunting (two thousand miles), or too illegal (ish), even when a boho D-list celebrity hitches a ride and drives the road trip in fresh directions.
Samantha and Holly are following every new turn—toward second chances, unexpected romance, and self-discovery—and finally blowing the dust off the secret that broke their friendship. On the open road, they'll try to put it back together—for themselves, and especially for the love of Katie.
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