Life's a Beach (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Claire Cook is the author of Must Love Dogs (which was made into a major motion picture starring Diane Lane and John Cusack), Multiple Choice, and Ready to Fall. She lives in Scituate, Massachusetts, with her family.

Kymberly Dakin is a professional actress with twenty years' experience on Broadway and in national tours. She has also played roles on The Guiding Light, One Life to Live, and All My Children, as well as It's a Miracle. She voices the character of "Split" on the PBS series Math Monsters.

"A laugh-out-loud chick-lit confection."―Good Housekeeping

"[A] gleefully quirky coming-of-age story"―Redbook

"Midlife love, laughter, sibling rivalry and self-discovery . . . Goes down as easy as it sounds."―People

"Readers will certainly be able to relate to and laugh with the next batch of eccentric characters in Cook's Life's a Beach a book brimming with wit and heart."―Cape Cod Times

"Claire Cook has an original voice, sparkling style and a window into family life that will make you laugh and cry. Life's a Beach is filled with hilarity, sister love and sister hate, juicy arguments and hard won reconciliations but most of all, heart. I'm giving it to my sister today!"―Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Big Stone Gap and Lucia, Lucia

"If I had a sister, I'd want her to be Claire Cook. If I had a summer, I'd want it to be the the summer that two sisters stropped their tongues and sparred over everything from fertility to photography to family. And if I could follow up the wry, wacky poignancy of Must Love Dogs with any book, it would be Life's A Beach. Claire Cook is wicked good.''―Jacquelyn Mitchard, bestselling author of Deep End of the Ocean

"Life's A Beach is a delicious coming of age novel-about two forty-something sisters who don't quite manage that feat until it's almost too late. I devoured this slice of family life served up in Claire Cook's inimitably warm and witty style. Tender, touching and terribly, terribly, funny!"―Mary Kay Andrews, author of Savannah Breeze

"A delightful and compelling page-turner . . . [a] feel-good charmer that is seductively engaging and ultimately downright fun."―Boston Globe

"[A] perfect-for-the-beach summer novel Life's a Beach is a bumpy delight."―Boston Common

"Claire Cook's smart, delightful new book made me laugh on the first page and on every single page all the way through--even when it also made me cry. True, tender, insightful, and hilarious--I loved it."―Pamela Redmond Satran

"Claire Cook has given us a heroine you'll cheer for and a book you won't be able to put down. I loved it."―Karen Quinn