Sisterchicks Go Brit! (Sisterchicks Series #7) | 
| Author: Robin Jones Gunn
Publisher: Multnomah Publishers
Category: Book
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 1590527550
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781590527559
ASIN: 1590527550
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Product Description
Cheerio, Sisterchicks!
SISTERCHICK n: a friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and provides a reality check when you’re being a brat.
Two midlife mamas hop over to jolly ole England and encounter so much more than the usual tourist stops. Liz does have a bit of a childhood crush on Big Ben, and she has hoped to “meet” him ever since her fifteenth birthday. Kellie dreams of starting an interior design business and figures Liz needs to be a part of that equation–a calculation that hasn’t added up for Liz yet.
Nothing on the excursion goes the way these two friends had envisioned. They start with a village pancake race and end up being held for questioning on The Underground. Kellie and Liz take a wild tour through the land of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and then find themselves swept up, up, and away in a hot air balloon over the Cotswalds. London beckons with the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, shopping at Portabella Road in Knotting Hill, and of course, reservations at the Ritz for a posh high tea.
A few detours along the way and the possibility of being lost in a London fog of wonderment aren’t enough to stop these two Sisterchicks! Each step of their regal journey is lined with evidence of God’s gracious compassion, and both come to realize that God knows their every wish. He is the One who planted every dream in their hearts.
And, oh, what a surprise awaits them when they return home!
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 it was great. June 25, 2008
I have enjoyed reading all of the sister chick books and then give them to family and friends to read.They are great.
A wonderful discovery! June 21, 2008
I have never been much of a fiction reader, but when I saw a Christian book about a trip to England, I had to give it a try. I really enjoyed this book and have already purchased the rest of the Sisterchicks novels. This book was easy to read, had enjoyable characters and fun adventures. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants a nice, relaxing book to savor.
 A quick trip to Britian with good friends June 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
more a series of amusing anecdotal tales May 24, 2008
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
Though in their early fifties, best friends Kellie and Liz have dreams since they were teens they hope to one day fulfill. Kellie still wishes to start an interior design business with Liz as her partner; Liz wants to visit London, a dream she has had since she was a teen.
Elderly neighbor Opal is going home to England to see her sister. Liz and Kellie decide to join her. As the Sisterchicks swing through England, they run into trouble, fog, and a good time while meeting nice people (for the most part), but also begin to understand that God knows their inner wishes whether the Lord grants them or not.
Fans of the series will want to accompany the Sisterchicks on their tour of Britain, which instead of the Romanism of Bronte starts as traffic like can be found in New York. The story line is actually more a series of anecdotal tales rather than a novel, but fans of the adventures will enjoy the SISTERCHICKS GO BRIT.
Harriet Klausner
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