A Midlife Holiday, A Midlife Baby and A Midlife Gamble are nominally a trilogy. In fact, they are one really long novel, since the second and third start where the previous one ends. I read them consecutively as one book. The story is an interesting one about three women in their early 50s who have known each other for 30 years. Overall, I would recommend them even though the last third of the final book does become what I felt was somewhat maudlin and needlessly melodramatic. (That could very well just be me; I have been called a cynic many times over the years.) The writing holds up well over hundreds of pages and the characters remain consistent.