Amazing Grace Adams
Books | Fiction / Humorous / General
3.5
Fran Littlewood
An Instant New York Times BestsellerA 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 #ReadwithJennaBernadette, 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.
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Author
Fran Littlewood
Pages
272
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Published Date
2023-09-05
ISBN
1250857015 9781250857019
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"Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it. The plot was a bit missed for me but I did appreciate the context of why her relationship was strained with her daughter in the first place. Gives you a good understanding of the importance of mother-daughter relationships."
Sara SoDeezy
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Amazing Grace Adam's is about a woman (Grace) who has reached her limit. In the now, Grace sets out on foot on a journey through London to pick up a cake and deliver it to her daughter's sixteenth birthday. She is desperate to present this cake to her daughter and her journey there becomes almost quest-like,
The story is told in multiple timelines, Then, the not too distant past, and now. Although Grace is the POV, the husband from whom she is separated is the POV for a handful of chapters. There is great character development, although it is slow- you don't find out that there is something big in Grace's past, in her family 's past that started the snowballing of the relationships. It was this revelation, and the mystery of it, that kept me reading.
I enjoyed Grace's epiphanies related to motherhood. I did not enjoy how perimopause was made out to be this awful thing. It felt as though the menopause was being blamed for her fragile mentality and everything else that was going wrong in her life. The chapters were not numbered which was truly aggravating when switching between the digital and audio versions.
Amazing Grace is a slow read. The multiple timelines are needed to help you understand HOW Grace got to the point where this journey on foot became so necessary to her. It was worth reading, but I nearly stopped.
My content warnings are as follows- sex (although not explicit), cursing, minor-adult relationship.
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Brandi Always Reading
"This book definitely hit me...this journey "
Lauri Weinberg
"Littlewood manages to pull more feelings than expected from a novel about a woman going through an existential crisis."
Ricki Marking-Camuto
