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Since the loss of her fiancé, Anna has been shipwrecked by grief—until a reminder goes off about a trip they were supposed to take together. Impulsively, Anna goes to sea in their sailboat, intending to complete the voyage alone.

But after a treacherous night’s sail, she realizes she can’t do it by herself and hires Keane, a professional sailor, to help. Much like Anna, Keane is struggling with a very different future than the one he had planned. As romance rises with the tide, they discover that it’s never too late to chart a new course.

In Trish Doller’s unforgettable Float Plan, starting over doesn’t mean letting go of your past, it means making room for your future.

I borrowed this audiobook from the library because I liked the cover. It’s one of the best books I’ve read this year (and I’ve already ready 70 books this year).

This book has everything I love in a good novel–imperfect characters, real struggles (not just misunderstandings), discovery, growth, romance, and (my favorite) hope. Doller starts the novel with a heart-breaking tragedy that cripples Anna in a very real way. Months later, she sets out to try to change things–she’s not really sure if she’s trying to forget or heal or just move on, she just knows that she needs to do SOMETHING.

So she does, and nothing about it turns out the way she planned. But she’s learned to let go, so she’s able to experience and enjoy the beauty of the unexpected instead of holding on to her plans too tightly. Overall, this is everything I think women’s fiction should be. I will definitely be reading more of her books.

If you liked Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you might enjoy this book.

R-rated for quite a bit of swearing (to be expected with an Irish hero) and a bit of sex, but it’s not nearly as graphic as some of the scenes I’ve read recently (though it’s not behind closed doors).

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