<p>Tara Richards is unhappy with her job as a rehabilitation nurse and disenchanted with her marriage, but lacks the courage to make a major life change. When her best friend Lisa disappears, Tara&#39;s life is thrown into turmoil. Has Lisa jeopardized her sobriety by going on a drinking binge or is she hiding the news that she may be pregnant from her partner Ryan, who has a history of battering, and it&#39;s not his baby? Lisa is her rock, her confidant, her reality check. Tara can&#39;t live without her. Despite the near paralysis of bad hair days and her dread of turning forty, Tara joins a massive search to look for her friend in conjunction with the police, her colorful women&#39;s collective, Lisa&#39;s old-world Italian parents, and a twenty-four-year-old man Tara finds particularly captivating.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Review of <em>Finding Lisa; Gripping, compelling and a darn good read.<br />
Finding Lisa by Sigrid Macdonald comes highly recommended by Chick Lit Caf&eacute;.</em></strong></p><p>One evening Tara is having a conversation with her best friend Lisa, the next morning Lisa is missing and the search begins. &nbsp;In the two weeks that follow, Tara will go through a lifetime of emotions. &nbsp;What&rsquo;s happened to Lisa? &nbsp;The shocking truth is not revealed until the very end and it will have you sat on the end of your chair.</p><p><strong>Review of <em>Finding Lisa</em></strong><br />
<strong>By Diane C. Donovan of Midwest Book Review</strong></p><p>Tara is leading an unhappy but safe life, stuck in a career and marriage she doesn&#39;t like, until her best friend vanishes. <em>Finding Lisa</em> is about having everything, losing something important, and re-evaluating life, love, and purpose as a result.</p><p>It stands out from other stories of disappearance and searching because of its focus on a variety of themes beyond the event itself. These include women&#39;s connections and friendships, the kinds of shared interactions that keep such connections alive, and underlying issues of spousal abuse, midlife changes, and new possibilities.</p><p>The first step to making meaningful changes is to confront evidence that one&#39;s values, perceptions, and patterns are no longer serving their purpose. As long as Lisa is part of her life, Tara isn&#39;t compelled to take this step or make these realizations; but Lisa&#39;s disappearance prompts a cascade of grief, self-examination, and determination in ways than one, and this in turn fosters new experiences and choices.</p><p>Set against the backdrop of Canadian culture, <em>Finding Lisa</em> follows Tara&#39;s journey as she learns to trust strangers, runs into danger and even possible romance, and navigates strange new worlds in which her usual responses need revision.&nbsp;</p><p>Her shortcomings and failures are reassessed as her search leads to not only dead ends, but a passage of time that gives her the feeling that Lisa is being left behind as life moves forward without her.</p><p>As she faces questions about whether Lisa lost her sobriety and whether her boyfriend Ryan was involved, Tara confronts her own life decisions. Ultimately, <em>Finding Lisa</em> is about Tara finding herself, her place in the world, and her own willingness to accept pat answers and appearances that defy easy explanations.</p><p>The emotionally charged conclusion that takes an unexpected twist will delight readers who anticipated a very different ending from Tara&#39;s thought processes, making <em>Finding Lisa</em> a delightful study in surprises that holds the power to thoroughly engross right up to its stormy conclusion.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>