Escape by Barbara Delinsky

Emily Aulenbach and her husband have been on the lawyer "fast track" for seven years ( but it seems like forever...) working grueling hours 24-7 with no breaks. Emily finally feels the need to get away, to escape from the rat race she feels trapped in. So she jumps in her husband's car and takes off to the beach leaving only a vague note about her whereabouts. When the beach doesn't meet her needs, she again takes off for a place that she last seemed happy at ten years ago. Will running away solve her problems? Will her husband understand? When she meets a woman, named Lee, who is having troubles of her own and needs Emily's' lawyerly help, she seems to make a connection, a brief satisfying feeling that at last she is doing something worthwhile with her life. Delinsky writes a compelling tale of women living life in the technological age searching for meaning to life, love and happiness. A great read.