Amazing Grace Adams: A Novel

· Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Claire Skinner
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9 hr 51 min
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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.

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 lau...

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2 reviews
Terri Chlapek
September 2, 2023
3.5 Stars. This audiobook was quite the adventure. The different timelines going on in the book were a bit confusing at times, but probably essential to the story. The story is about a woman who's past was quite amazing. She speaks five languages fluently, won an award for Polyglot of the Year and was on TV. Now, however, her life has imploded. She lost her job, she's getting divorced and her daughter doesn't want anything to do with her. It all reaches a boiling point on her daughter's sixteenth birthday. Grace is determined to deliver the awesome birthday cake she ordered to her daughter. The universe has decided to put obstacle after obstacle in her way and Grace has the worst day in the history of mankind. Grace Adams will persevere and show the world that she IS still awesome. There were lots of different issues tackled by the author in this family drama. There is perimenopause (and all the accompanying glories), separation and divorce, death, grief, sexual predators and mental health. It was a lot to take in. At times, this audiobook seemed overly long, but I did enjoy it. The narration by Chelsea Stephens was good. Thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the gifted audiobook. All thoughts are my own.
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About the author

Fran Littlewood has an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. Before her MA, she worked as a journalist, including a stint at the Times. She lives in London with her husband and their three daughters. Amazing Grace Adams is her debut novel.
Fran Littlewood has an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. Before her MA, she worked as a journalist, including a stint at the Times. She lives in London with her husband and their three daughters. Amazing Grace Adams is her debut novel.

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