That Jones Girl
by Peggy Webb

Rated: 4.0
Reviewed: 12/8/97 by Isolde Wehr

Contemporary

Tess is a very good blues singer. She lives together with her cat O'Toole, named by her third ex-husband. A telegram brings her back to her hometown. One of her friends has died and the clique has decided if someone dies the others have to give a goodbye party.

In the house of her dead friend she meets again Mick Flannigan. Mick was her first love, her first lover and also her first husband. But he had left her after only six months of their marriage and there was only a short letter from him, nothing more.

Mick is a vagabund always looking for his end of the rainbow. He never stopped loving Tess but he also never recognized that she is his "pot of gold". Tess is totally confused by seeing Mick again because her marriage has been over for 10 years. On the goodbye party for their friend Babs they begin to come closer again. Tess was really hurt then he left her and she will not feel that once more and Mick knows that his impulse for the adventure will let him go again.

But there is an old man who wants to play fate for both. Casey uses his chance and tells Tess that he is looking for his missing son who should curiously look like Mick. So Mick and Leslie go together with Casey on a trip, but it is Mick's turn to recognize what is important in his life - the loneliness or a life with Tess.