Amazing Grace Adams
Ratings5
Average rating2.8
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Ratings5
Average rating2.8
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.
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In the blurb they compare Grace to literary characters such as Elenor,Rosie,Ove,Bernadette. All characters I loved for the quirkiness. But I just found Grace unlikable.
Did not finish. 1.5 stars anyway because I crossed the halfway mark.
The first few chapters were fun, and I enjoyed some of the prose, but the 3 timeline and constant flashbacks storytelling was so annoying to manage. It felt like a lot of work to read so I gave up and googled how it ends. It's a shame because the story is interesting, I think this could have been much stronger told in a single timeline where it was easier to follow the plot and you got a chance to attach to the characters.
