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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. She's stuck in traffic and all she wants to do is hand deliver a cake to her daughter, Lottie, on her sixteenth birthday.
You’re not seriously…” The man is yelling now, gesturing wildly so that she can see the sweat patches under his arms. And the fly is on her cheek now, on her arm, in her hair, and the traffic still isn’t moving, and time is jumping forward in units that aren’t as they should be, and she can’t be late, not today, there’s just no question.
Littlewood debuts with an uneven perimenopause drama centered on the tempestuous relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter. The situations are (mostly) totally relatable, the raw pain and loss palpable and, at one point, I found myself stifling a sob! While it is easy to admire her stance of standing for herself, her attitude and her approach towards problems didn’t endear her to me. I am going to channel my inner Grace with some of the “twits“ (keeping it clean) she and women generally can encounter daily.
This felt a little gimmicky to me, only because I would become invested in a certain timeline, and then immediately have to read about another timeline, when in reality, all I wanted to do was learn more from a different section. The book has a good portrayal of Grace's teenage daughter who is over her head in social media and involved in a toxic relationship.
Drivers are blaring their horns and the man in the next car is staring at her, and suddenly she can’t take it any longer. There’s a sense of loss in the book — the feeling that her 15-year-old is growing up and leaving her. They just end up diluting the main point of the book, which is that of a mother desperately wanting to connect with her teenaged daughter again. The character of Grace is an inspiring and memorable creation, as is her daughter Lotte, portraying the impact of modern life on a teen today.
The main story is set on a single day, with two other timelines providing the background to the current events. I thought from the cover and the description that this would be lighthearted and it is definitely a lot heavier than anticipated. This is a lovey, heartwarming look at what it is to be a mother, wife and woman and the expectations we and others put on ourselves. meet Amazing Grace Adams , the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink―who finally pushes back.But who doesn't have a lot of stuff to deal with at some point in their life when one more thing may put them over-the-edge?
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