Amazing Grace Adams

A Novel

De: Fran Littlewood

Narrado por: Claire Skinner

An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Today Read With Jenna Book Club Pick

"I dare you not to fall wildly in love with Grace...It's a book about love, about grace, about even when we fall from those we love we can always find our way home...You will laugh on the first page and you will keep laughing until you're crying on the last page." ―Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show's #ReadwithJenna

Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove . . . meet Amazing Grace Adams, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink—who finally pushes back.

Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled—the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away.

Grace sets off across London, armed with a £200 cake, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she’ll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them . . . and, most important, remind herself.

©2023 Fran Littlewood (P)2023 Macmillan Audio

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller

An Indie Next Pick for September 2023

"Claire Skinner convinces listeners from the onset that she is the one and only amazing Grace Adams. With humor and sarcasm, Skinner portrays the formidable linguist, who has never wanted children. Instead she lands a dream job on a London TV show. But new motherhood eventually costs Grace her job. Then she discovers unexpected love. Skinner reveals the joy and anguish Grace experiences amid life's rocky twists. She maneuvers Grace's chaotic inner life seamlessly. Well written and expertly narrated, this audiobook is a must-listen." (AudioFile)

"Grace Adams is also the latest in a series of brilliant, beautiful and privileged protagonists (Amy Dunne, Bernadette Fox, Barbie) undone by the challenges of modern womanhood."—The New York Times Book Review

“A gripping story of joy, grief, stress, worry, love at first sight, parenting...frank, nuanced, and evocative.”—Kirkus

“Hugely enjoyable. Compelling, funny and poignant. I devoured it.”—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl On The Train

So so

The narration was very good, but that didn’t save the story. It was really just meh.

Good story, back and forth in time

Great story but a bit too much back and forth in time. Fairly realistic and good characters.

Lovely words!

Wonderfully written and fabulously read! A great slice of life with complex, awesome, and lovable characters living through tough and challenging lives.

Cannot trust Jenna Bush

This was Jenna’s September 2023 book club selection. She called it the most hilarious, feel-good story. I do not agree with that at all. The book starts in current time and flashes back to when she first met her husband and runs up to current year. And it feels like there are key major events we are not going to find out until later. And that was sooo much later. In the meantime there is an extremely long and frustrating excursion of her trying to get her daughters birthday cake to her.

I didn’t find funny or feel-good at all. I was frustrated and not feeling good for such a major portion of the book. And such a key plot point is not brought out until way late in the book. Then we have a 6 months later epilogue where things seem to be turning around for our protagonist. But for most of the book she can’t do anything right and everything is falling apart in her world. I just can’t deal with a feel good promise where there is 95% yuck and only last 5% is yum.

Narrator was ok. I don’t think doing other voices is her strong suit. I couldn’t always tell who was meant to be speaking at some times because they all kinda sound alike.

Very emotional read

If you’ve ever been the parent of a teenage girl or ever lost a sibling or child, this book will touch you. It might make you rethink your experience. And it will definitely make you cry.