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“Grace Adams…the latest in a series of brilliant, beautiful, and privileged protagonists (Amy Dunne, Bernadette Fox, Barbie) undone by the challenges of modern womanhood.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Grace is obviously troubled, and her journey to her daughter is also one of insight into her own life…Readers will root for her.”
— Library Journal
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“Littlewood easily captures the grief Grace feels at nearing the end of her reproductive years, and the mother-daughter relationship is similarly well drawn.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Littlewood confronts the effects that aging and trauma, stress, poor decisions, and memories of overheard and unspoken conversations can have on a person’s sense of self and their relationships. The result is simultaneously frank, nuanced, and evocative.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“Hugely enjoyable. Compelling, funny and poignant. I devoured it.”
— Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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"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.”
— Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show
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A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club PickAn Instant New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next Pick for September 2023
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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
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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.
— The New York Times Book Review
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A gripping story of joy, grief, stress, worry, love at first sight, parenting...frank, nuanced, and evocative.
— Kirkus
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Hugely enjoyable. Compelling, funny and poignant. I devoured it.
— Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl On The Train
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I just adored this beautiful debut novel! Funny, moving and at times absolutely heartbreaking, it had me captivated until the very last page. An unforgettable read.
— Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies
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Amazing Grace Adams is an exacting and brilliantly structured novel about love, grief, hope lost and then found again. I rooted for Grace from the first sentence.
— Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes
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Fran Littlewood has written a magnificent novel. Grace Adams is everywoman – filled with promise, trepidatious in love and eventually, a besotted mother. Amazing Grace Adams is a fully realized story of catastrophe and joy, grief and love, and the hidden chambers of the human heart that carry the best and worst of our experience. A stunning debut.
— Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone
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I can’t remember the last time I read a novel with such unbridled enthusiasm. Amazing Grace Adams is a raw, uproariously hilarious portrait of parenthood, love, and family; it’s also a profound examination of the way language can both save us and fail us when we need it the most. I’d walk across London on the hottest day of the year with Fran Littlewood—hell, I’d walk anywhere with her. I’m begging you: read this book.
— Grant Ginder, author of Let's Not Do That Again and The People We Hate at the Wedding
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I devoured it. Vivid, visceral, and incredibly emotional. I laughed and sobbed.
— Tim Minchin, Tony Award nominee, Matilda the Musical and Groundhog Day the Musical