Amazing Grace Adams

byFran Littlewood, Claire Skinner (Read by)
One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps.

She doesn't scream or break something or cry or curl into a ball. She simply abandons her car in traffic and walks away. But not from her life - towards it. Towards the daughter who has banned her from the party. Towards the husband divorcing her. Towards the terrible thing that has blown their family apart . . .

She'll show her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up. Because Grace Adams was amazing. The world and her family might have forgotten. But Grace is about to remind them ...

A tragicomic character that middle-aged women can celebrate . . . It's a tale of giddy love, thwarted ambitions, devastating loss, the dangers of 21st-century adolescence, the horrors of the menopause and how badly language can let us down . . . Littlewood writes with ferocity and compassion about Grace's all-too-believable agonies and the impossibility of spinning all the plates that modern life expects us to manage. Read it and weep (then cheer)

THE TIMES

About Fran Littlewood

Fran Littlewood is the author of Amazing Grace Adams, which was a New York Times bestseller and Today Show Read With Jenna pick, and has been published in 17 territories to date. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and worked as a journalist, including a stint at the Times. She lives in London with her husband and their three daughters. The Favourite is her second novel.
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  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • ISBN: 9780241612026
  • Length: 593 minutes
  • Price: £13.00
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