Sisterchicks Go Brit! by Robin Jones Gunn

Reviewed by Jamie Driggers for ArmchairInterviews.com

The dearest kindness a woman can offer herself in the autumn of her years is the permission to take risks, or so says Opal, a hot-pink tennis shoe clad seventy-nine-year-young Sisterchick.

That's just what midlife mamas Liz and Kellie learn to do when they escort Opal to Great Britain. Very little of their trip goes as planned as they are first detained in Olney during Pancake Day, detoured to Oxford when they thought they were heading to London, and navigating the "tube," "coaches," and teatime.

Fans of the Sisterchicks books will find in Sisterchicks Go Brit! another wonderful story of "friends who share the deepest wonders of your heart, love you like a sister, and provide a reality check with you're being a brat." Returning readers of the series won't be disappointed with this foray into all things British. Those not familiar with the Sisterchicks should pick a destination and prepare to travel with friends (if only in your imagination).

It's always fun to read about moms being people and experiencing life without being mired down in motherhood duties-it gives me hope! Maybe someday I'll go gallivanting around with a good friend without having to worry about school schedules and diapers.

I especially enjoyed reading an outsider's view of Pancake Day in Olney. I can only speak of same event held annually in the sister city of Liberal, Kansas, but it is just as crazy-or more-than she described. And I can't believe that Tolkien and Lewis' homes aren't museums. The people who live there probably go crazy with the tourists. I want to be crazy enough to hop out of the taxi and take photos of the gnomes!

Overall, I feel like I've just returned from a British vacation with friends-and I can't wait to go on another.

Armchair Interviews agrees.