The novel starts with Successful business woman and owner of Lulu the Love Guru, having to take her too romantically charged mother out of yet another Alzheimer’s care home. Seems like all her mom wants to do is spoon with all the men, having been married five times. Lou Ann realizes her mom won’t be around forever, so acquiesces to her moms demand LouAnn take her back to her dilapidated and huge family home in Louisiana to die. Newly hired wonderful nurse Lindsey comes along as well and the three of them settle the best way they can into this new life.
A fast read about mother’s and daughters, learning patience, and love.

Beautifully dramatic, warm, rich and complicated. I loved it. The culture of New Orleans, the old plantation that sucks money. The people who are wonderful. Great writing, fabulous situations, perfect dialogue. I wish it hadn't ended. For me that's the highest of praise.

Unlike Rachel Gibson's previous books, this is not a romance but a love story about mothers and daughters. As someone with a parent with Alzheimers, I found the relationship authentic and well told. The author blends humor with her drama as well as colorful descriptions of Louisiana life.

I enjoyed this quick read! Always love Rachel Gibson and this one didn’t disappoint, I finished this in one sitting!

I always love a Rachel Gibson romance. They are always fun of heart and comedy. This novel is a bit a departure from her other novels. This is less a romance and more of a relationship novel. The novel focus on the fractured relationship between a mother and daughter. The daughter Lou Ann runs an empire that comes from her “Lulu the Love Guru” persona. She is always working and has little time for anyone including herself. Her mother Patricia has been married and divorced five times. The mother has been always had a “passionate nature” and it gets her booted out of her latest health care facility. Patricia also has Alzheimer’s. Patricia convinces Lou Ann she has to go home (her family home in Louisiana) to die. Alzheimer’s is not an easy disease to experience but you see the humor and heartbreak in this book. You see Lou Ann having to become the caregiver and learning to let go of the past and enjoy the present.

Thank you to the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book. Everyone is going to love Lulu the Love Guru and her mother Patricia. Lulu has a successful empire. She makes the decision to leave that behind to care for her mother with Alzheimers. This reminded me of Kristin Hannah, Still Alice and Meet the Fockers all rolled into one. Definitely recommend.

I enjoyed this story of a woman finding her way back to a relationship as her mother is in decline suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The two women and the young nurse hired to help return to the family plantation home and find their history and future..

How Lulu Lost her Mind is simply…wonderful. I read this book in one sitting because I couldn’t – and didn’t want to –put it down.

In an age where more and more CHILDREN are caring for the longer-living parents, the struggles are very real and Rachel Gibson has done a heart-wrenching, realistic, and totally wonderful job of showing just exactly how hard those struggles are.

Lulu Hunter is successful, independent, and unencumbered in her romantic life. She’s also the alter ego of Lulu the Love Guru, a jet-setting advice maven. Her mother, unfortunately, has Alzheimer’s and has been in several care facilities since diagnosis. Just when Lulu is about to launch out on new business tour, her mother is tossed out of her latest care facility due to her…well, passionate nature. Let’s just say Patricia is a fan of all things love and love related, including canoodling with men she is not married to.

Faced with personally caring for her ailing mother, a mother who insists she wants to go to her ancestral home in Louisiana to die, Lulu hires a live-in caretaker and the three of them embark of the trip.

I don’t like spoilers so I won’t divulge all the secrets and shenanigans mom and daughter get into, but there’s a foul mouthed parrot, a hot Cajun contractor, and a baby that make life just a little bit more of struggle than Lulu ever anticipated.

This book is love letter, pure and simple, to mothers and daughters who have reached that age where the maternal roles are reversed. I cried, I laughed, I wet my pants, when I read this book.

I can’t think anyone who loses themselves in this work won’t be able to put it down!

Brava. 5 stars from me- wish I could give it more. Thanks Netgalley and Gallery books for the sneak peek at what I predict will be a bestseller for 2020.