The Tuesday Girl

De: Tanya Eby

Narrado por: Tanya Eby

Even in your late 40s, you can still find a happily-ever-after, just maybe not the way you’ve read about in books.

The Tuesday Girl follows the author’s three-year journey of self-discovery while she heals from past relationships, figures out what she wants, and moves on with her life, creating something bold and beautiful along the way.

Tanya Eby is a narrator, and has performed over 1,100 audiobooks over her two-decade career. Half of her narrations have been of romance novels. You’d think with narrating all these romance titles, she’d have some deeper insight into romantic relationships. Yeah. Not so much.

In 2020, while the world is in lockdown, the author is starting over. Again. She leaves marriage number two and vows that she’s going to live a healthy and authentic life.

Told primarily through conversations, The Tuesday Girl is raw, witty, emotional, and ultimately inspirational. Tanya takes the listener on intimate dates, walks with friends, and conversations with people in her life. She falls in love with someone who she is certain is different from anyone she’s ever met, only to discover that he is a conman. Through it all, she relies on her friend Erin and learns that romance isn’t something that just happens in books—it’s something that runs throughout your own life.

©2023 Tanya Eby (P)2023 Blunder Woman Productions

An Everywoman’s Memoir

Author/narrator Tanya Eby delivers an account of her experiences of dating on the cusp of 50 that is much more than a diatribe of midlife. Readers are bound to identify with one or more threads of Eby’s work; be it through personal experience or that of others they are close to.

Although my own path differs in some ways from the author’s, I was straight up gobsmacked at just how much I could relate to; especially of the “things we think, but don’t say (or, in my case, work on)” variety.

From parenting to pandemic living and friendships to feelings of self doubt, Eby yanks the covers off of everything she has encountered, worked on, and continues to navigate. The Tuesday Girl is searingly honest, raw, sometimes sad, and often funny. Read it yourself and share it with others. If you don’t already have an Erin in your life, go out and get one - stat!

Love is not too much to ask for

Tanya Eby gives both heart and soul in her writing and her narration. This is a book for every woman and man who has been led on and lied to, and who believed it all because they just wanted to be loved. Love is not too much to ask for. In fact, as the author learns, it is what we deserve. And we'll have it if we refuse to settle for less.

Honestly human

Chortling and fist pumping by the end of chapter 61.
A rollercoaster ride almost all of us can relate to on some level.

An honestly compelling memoir!

Tanya Eby's brave and honest memoir is excellent. She tells it like it is, and expresses it beautifully. I think everyone who's in search of love, wrestled with self worth, and been on the receiving end of "bizarre behavior" (which is pretty much everyone!) should read/listen to this.

Wonderful!

I loved this book. Beautifully written, wonderfully read. Do yourself a favor and grab this book!

Here’s to a “Big, Beautiful F’ing Life”

Wow, what a vulnerable, messy, gorgeous, important story. There are moments you cry with Tanya, want to yell at Tanya, wish you had friends like she does, and ultimately do a wild, silly, celebratory dance with, and for, Tanya. There are moments I saw so much of myself or someone I love, moments that took my breath away and made me ask a lot of questions. Moments of love and laughter and cheer. Moments of all kinds that make up a life; a beautiful, brave, raw, wonderful, reclamation of life, self, and soul. This book gives back all the breath it knocks out of you and is my kind of love story.

Resilience after love, divorce and betrayal

I was so pleasantly surprised by this book. It takes you on a a journey of discovery - sometimes painful, sometimes joyous, sometimes reckless. It seems to me the story of many people in the modern era, trying for love, and sometimes it doesn't work out - and maybe leads to something better. Anyone in a "toxic" relationship and looking for a story to resonate with, this is a great choice.

Lovely

Heartbreaking, relatable, and ultimately hopeful. Beautifully narrated. Once I started listening I couldn’t stop until I finished it.

Loved it

Listening to this memoir is like being invited to into an intimate space to experience a slice of a new friend’s life, except the new friend feels like someone you’ve always known, and also kind of like you yourself. A cozy listen with many (sometimes surprising) moments of self-recognition, and an overall takeaway that is uplifting.

Honest, raw, heartbreaking, uplifting

The Tuesday Girl is messy - but I mean this in the best way. Tanya shows us the good, the bad, and the ugly. One of the most difficult parts of writing a memoir, or a blog, or anything personal, is the ability to be truly introspective, but this is not a problem for Tanya. She is also able to capture the non-linear growth of a person that we miss so often in memoir. I have read many, and they often come across as “I wasn’t very this, then this happened, and now I am very this.” Tanya’s honesty in her experience is refreshing, if heart wrenching, and demonstrates more accurately how we experience life: two steps forward, three steps back, four steps forward, return to Go and don’t collect $200. Brava. A good read.