The Last Bathing Beauty

By: Amy Sue Nathan

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

A former beauty queen faces the secrets of her past - for herself and the sake of her family’s future - in a heartfelt novel about fate, choices, and second chances.

Everything seemed possible in the summer of 1951. Back then Betty Stern was an eighteen-year-old knockout working at her grandparents’ lakeside resort. The "Catskills of the Midwest" was the perfect place for Betty to prepare for bigger things. She’d head to college in New York City. Her career as a fashion editor would flourish. But first, she’d enjoy a wondrous last summer at the beach falling deeply in love with an irresistible college boy and competing in the annual Miss South Haven pageant. On the precipice of a well-planned life, Betty’s future was limitless.

Decades later, the choices of that long-ago season still reverberate for Betty, now known as Boop. Especially when her granddaughter comes to her with a dilemma that echoes Boop’s memories of first love, broken hearts, and faraway dreams. It’s time to finally face the past - for the sake of her family and her own happiness. Maybe in reconciling the life she once imagined with the life she’s lived, Boop will discover it’s never too late for a second chance.

©2020 Amy Nathan Gropper (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Getaways

For the nostalgic, a nice story for a getaway from these troubled times. I thought the narration was very well done. I think a tag team narration for Betty and Boop would have been nice, but I very much enjoyed it

Download of audio book will only do one chapter. Please hep

I am very captivated and need the whole experience. I know this is a book I just have in my audio collection

twisted dirty dancing novel

it's kind of a twisted version of dirty dancing where theres a resort and girl fall in love with the wrong boy and her parents want her to date someone else. I just kind of got the whole dirty dancing vibe from the book. It's a great story with all kind of twists and turns.

A wonderful story line.

eager to pick up where I left off... found myself inside the story. worthy and satisfying

Beach Read

I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the values of the 1940s/50s, and beautiful story of friendship and family. Highly recommend as a good summer read!