Amazing Grace Adams

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Amazing Grace Adams- Fran Littlewood - Women's Literary fiction

Grace is all over the place. Her daughter is living with her about-to-be ex-husband, her jobs (both of them) are precarious to say the least and life is just all over the place. In a traffic jam to pick up a cake for her daughter which she hopes will begin to mend some fences, Grace loses it and walks away from her car. Occasional chapters take us to two additional timelines- one when she met her husband twenty years ago and another a few months ago before it all went pear shaped. Very easy to follow. Of course the journey from the car to the cake shop isn't straightforward and as for the £200 cake…. 

I enjoyed this, it made me smile and sympathise and think about my own life in parts. I think many of us have been in that horrible situation where everything is just too complex and we would like to walk away from it all. Grace however walks towards it not away. Like most of us she is determined and her heart is in the right place even if some things have fallen by the wayside in the meantime. Lotte is a typical teen with angst and attitude, Grace herself is perimenopausal and suffering looking in the mirror seeing herself age. In the time past chapters we understand more of Grace and Lotte and even Ben and why things are as they are.

Wow! This is a debut novel and a stunning one, written as if by a very seasoned author. Fran Littlewood is most certainly an author to look out for in the future.  Of life and language and the fluidity thereof. How one generation can learn from another and not always upwards. A powerful, emotional, touching, memorable, uplifting read. Go Grace!

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