After seeing the Bette Davis movie made from this novel many years ago, I wanted to read the book right away!It was not an easy task to find it but certainly worth all the waiting! - Prouty writes so well,so fluidly (I would be very happy with myself if I could write so effortlessly) maybe a little like the too easy romance novels of nowadays but she has a great way to describe characters and feelings. She gets you very interested in this peculiar story. The 1942 movie is, as described by other reviewers before me, very good and what tickles me so, it's when you read the novel, you wonder if there would have been other choices than Davis or Henreid, or Gladys Cooper for actors. They were so well cast that it makes you feel like reading those books written AFTER the movie! Now Voyager is the kind of book you read eagerly and put down wanting more...

"Now, Voyager" is the wonderful story of lonely, repressed, emotionally-starved Charlotte Vale, the youngest daughter of an imperious Boston matriarch. She yearns to break free from the torment of her life and with the help of a caring psychiatrist, gains the stability to do so. During an ocean voyage, she falls in love with a married man, then commits her life to helping others. Beautifully written, the type of book one curls up with on a cold night, rich and rewarding, a must for anyone who has ever allowed themselves to be frightened by the difficulties of life. The marvelous 1942 movie with Bette Davis and Paul Henreid is justifiably famous.

Having seen the 1942 movie with Bette Davis won't spoil your enjoyment of this book. With one exception the film was pretty faithful to the novel, which follows a respressed spinster as she breaks free of her mother's dominance and finds a type of love for herself.