Published: 2014, penguin Genre: fiction Themes: adventure, old age, romance, walking, companionship My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤ With another COVID lockdown looming, I made it my business to get down to the library and pick up enough books to get me over Christmas and then a few weeks into the New Year. I wanted to get something fairly easy going, that didn't require too much concentration and that I could pick up and put down without loosing track of the plot. Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper fitted the bill perfectly. Don't get me wrong, this book is not fluff and nonsense, but it does read easily and I liked the characters described in the story. The principal character is Etta who is a lady of 82 who has started to become forgetful and suddenly decides she would like to see the ocean, just once, before it is too late. This may seem like a simple thing to do, but Etta lives in Canada, and the route she wants to take is 3,232 km and she i...