Finding Margo (A Contemporary Romance, set in France) [Kindle Edition]

Susanne O'Leary (Author)

Book Description

When Margo misreads a roadmap while travelling by car through France, her husband Alan flies into one of his habitual rages. Tired of his constant bad moods, Margo slips away from him at a motorway café. She hitches a lift with a woman truck driver and escapes into the French countryside. What follows is adventure and romance far beyond her wildest dreams. Will Alan find her before she finds herself?

British spelling and grammar.

Previousl published by New Island Books, Ireland

Product Details

• File Size: 501 KB
• Print Length: 432 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0037UY6BO
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #293,323 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable Read September 6, 2010

By Tina Carignan

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Finding Margo left me so frustrated with the character, in a good way though. In the beginning pages, Margo would react one way to her circumstances, when I wanted her to react another. The author wrote Finding Margo in such a way that one quickly becomes vested in Margo's life. Margo's husband is a verbally abusive swine that you just want to slap him into the next century.

Margo leaves her husband on the motorway when his verbal abuse reaches new heights.

The people that she encounters along the way are richly drawn giving the reader secondary characters that move the story along.

Finding Margo is Susanne O'Learys second book that I have read, the first was Swedish For Beginners which I thoroughly enjoyed as well. Thank you Susanne, I look forward to reading Fresh Powder next.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Mid-life Coming of Age Story September 11, 2010

By BigAl TOP 1000 REVIEWER

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Some may think it as a strange claim, but I see "Finding Margo" as a coming-of-age story. Margo's emotionally abusive and controlling husband and her efforts to please him have in many ways stilted her growth into adulthood. When she reaches her breaking point and leaves him while in a foreign country she has no plan - she just has to escape. What follows is Margo "finding herself" in all the ways that cliché implies. Margo learns to take care of herself, stand up for herself, and make decisions for herself, all against a cultural backdrop as foreign to Margo as it will be for most readers. An excellent read.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Convincing characters, beautiful settings, well written September 26, 2010

By jstmgn

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"Finding Margo" by Susanne O'Leary tells the story of a woman who had already made and accepted the choices that would determine her path. Suddenly, during a road trip in France, she is slapped in the face when one of those choices -- her sophisticated doctor husband -- shows his true, dark colors. Now, Margo must decide what she really wants -- and does not want -- in her life.

On her own in Paris, and abandoning all she has expected and accepted in the past, Margo faces a string of obstacles -- friends, mates, class structure, long-hidden family dynamics -- in discovering her new self.

To the last moment, you wonder whether Margo has in fact redirected her destiny, or if she has instead repopulated the original script. Will she realize her original choices in life were the right fit for her, or has she broken the chains that bind one to an undeviating course? You may think you see the ending but, sadly or not, the new Margo will surprise you.

The characters in "Finding Margo" are beautifully created and possess familiar and believable personalities. These people evolve in realistic and sometimes unexpected directions, a credit to Susanne O'Leary's ability to understand and portray the complexity of real-life personalities. Add in the author's Parisian city and French countryside backdrops, and you find yourself pausing to savor the scenes of this created world but feeling compelled to continue on Margo's journey -- just not too quickly please; make it last.

Susanne O'Leary has a smooth, flowing and unrestrained writing style. She has written "Finding Margo" with a playful and energetic touch, yet with a depth suitable to the eternal quandary of how one chooses to live life.