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The mother of three grown children, she lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee with her husband and a rescue dog named Yoshi. She has worked as a dude ranch hand, a university seminar coordinator, a paralegal, and an assistant in a fire investigation firm. She studied Creative Writing at Michigan State University under Professor Albert Drake. “"She wouldn’'t know the truth if it fell out of the sky and clumped her on the head.”"Ĭathy knew then that she would be a writer. €œ"That child is the biggest liar on God’'s green earth,”" the other woman replied. €œ"That child is quite the story-teller,”" one woman said. Once, in a moment of epiphany, she overheard two neighbors discussing her. As a child, she entertained her classmates with tales of a scaled creature that lived in her carport shed and a magical phone that hung in her family’'s bathroom that could be used to summon an English butler (this was in North Carolina in the 1960’'s and her family lived in married student housing). But as the week wears on and each woman's hidden story is gradually revealed, these four friends learn that they must inevitably confront their shared past: a failed love affair, a discarded suitor, a betrayal, and a secret that threatens to change their bond, and their lives, forever.Darkly comic and deeply poignant, Beach Trip is an unforgettable tale of lifelong friendship, heartbreak, and happiness.From the Hardcover edition.Cathy Holton grew up in college towns in the American South and Midwest. Cathy Holton Beach Trip: A Novel Kindle Edition by Cathy Holton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 2,119 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. And Lola, sweet-tempered and absentminded, whiles away her hours-and her husband's money-on little pills that keep her happy.Now the friends, all in their forties, converge on Lola's lavish North Carolina beach house in an attempt to relive the carefree days of their college years. Annie, a successful Nashville businesswoman married to her childhood sweetheart, can't seem to leave behind the regrets of her youth. Sara, an Atlanta attorney, struggles with guilt over her son's illness and her own slowly unraveling marriage. Mel, a mystery writer living in New York, is grappling with the aftermath of two failed marriages and a stalled writing career.

A reunion of four friends becomes a cathartic journey into the past in Cathy Holton' s luminous new novel.Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled distinct and diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s.