Category: General Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Family Road Trip Summer
Written by Annie Hartnett
Read by Mark Bramhall
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
âA miraculous novelâan actual and spiritual road trip you wonât forget.ââJohn Irving
At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it werenât for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since then, PJ spends both his money and his time at the bar, and he probably doesnât have much time leftâheâs had three heart attacks already.
But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again. Filled with a new enthusiasm for life, PJ decides heâs going to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win Michelle back.
Before PJ can hit the road, tragedy strikes Pondville, leaving PJ the sudden guardian of his estranged brotherâs grandchildren. Anyone else would be deterred from the planned trip, but PJ figures the orphaned kids might benefit from getting out of town. PJ also thinks he can ask Sophie, his adult daughter who’s adrift in her twenties, to come along to babysit. And thereâs one more surprise addition to the roster: Pancakes, a former nursing home therapy cat with a knack of predicting death, who recently turned up outside PJâs home.
This could be the second chance PJ has long hoped forâa fresh shot at love and parentingâbut does he have the strength to do both those things again? Itâs very possible his heart canât take it.
Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 04-29-25
âA miraculous novelâan actual and spiritual road trip you wonât forget.ââJohn Irving
At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it werenât for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since then, PJ spends both his money and his time at the bar, and he probably doesnât have much time leftâheâs had three heart attacks already.
But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again. Filled with a new enthusiasm for life, PJ decides heâs going to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win Michelle back.
Before PJ can hit the road, tragedy strikes Pondville, leaving PJ the sudden guardian of his estranged brotherâs grandchildren. Anyone else would be deterred from the planned trip, but PJ figures the orphaned kids might benefit from getting out of town. PJ also thinks he can ask Sophie, his adult daughter who’s adrift in her twenties, to come along to babysit. And thereâs one more surprise addition to the roster: Pancakes, a former nursing home therapy cat with a knack of predicting death, who recently turned up outside PJâs home.
This could be the second chance PJ has long hoped forâa fresh shot at love and parentingâbut does he have the strength to do both those things again? Itâs very possible his heart canât take it.
Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 04-29-25