Book Review: ‘Room And Board: A Novel’ By Miriam Parker

A woman starts her life over after a scandal and returns to the scene of her young heartbreak, in the heart-warming tale of starting over and facing the past and moving forward. Gillian is 38 years-old and for years was a top publicist for some of the biggest stars in the world, living in New York and on top of the world. Then a #MeToo scandal with one of her clients ended it all. She closed her business and is now back at the high-school boardking school she went to as a dorm mother, in Sonoma, California. In her senior year she had heartbrake and scandal of the high-school variety. She’s looking forward to the change in her life and is liking her job and the girls like her. Then a singing duo goes viral that goes to the school and the man that broke her heart all those years ago comes back into her life. She puts her PR skills into good use helping out the school in its times of good and then bad, when a major scandal is uncovered. Through it all Gillian must decide if she can risk her heart being broken again. A great end of summer beach read.

You can pick up Room And Board in stores on Tuesday, August 16th from Dutton.