Choral Society
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Publisher Description
Three women in their fifties--one widowed, one divorced and one never married--meet when they join a choir. Lucy, a food journalist, is obeying her bossy daughter who prescribes singing to assuage her grief. Joanna, the successful businesswoman for whom failure is not an option, is tackling her inability to sing a note. And much-divorced Rebecca is unashamedly looking for another mate.
When they decide to combine their talents to restore a run down hotel on the Cornish coast and turn it into a spa offering holiday courses, conflict is bound to result.
Lucy, Joanna and Rebecca are a sympathetic and engaging trio, very different women, each with private demons to confront. We feel for them as they cope, or fail to cope, with the pain of the past and fear for the future. Prue Leith makes their intertwined journeys riveting and ultimately satisfying, even uplifting.
The choir teaches them a good deal more than how to sing . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Three Notting Hill 50-somethings meet in a choral class and join together to overcome the vicissitudes of midlife in Leith's tribute to friendship. Lucy is a still-grieving widow and food writer who's just lost her newspaper column to a celebrity hotshot. Rebecca is a posh single with a trail of breakups behind her. Joanna works for a venture capital firm and is hungry for something exciting to happen to her. Nelson, their choral director, embarks on an affair with Rebecca as the three form strong bonds that will see them through a pivotal time of changes. Joanna falls in love and discovers mixing business with pleasure can be troublesome; Lucy finds a new lust for life after Rebecca gives her a makeover, and her shot at teaching a food-writing class could lead to bigger developments yet. Leith, a popular British food writer, depicts these smart coming-of-middle-age denizens with wisdom, humor and a dollop of realistic angst.
