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    The Awkward Age: A Novel
    The Awkward Age: A Novel
    The Awkward Age: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Awkward Age: A Novel

    Written by Francesca Segal

    Narrated by Jayne Entwistle

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    "A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own." —Nick Hornby 

    “A spry and accomplished comedy of manners.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “They've chosen the one thing that will make our family life impossible. It's genius really, when you think about it. It's the perfect sabotage.”
     
    Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.

    This is a moving and powerful novel about the modern family: about starting over; about love, guilt, and generosity; about building something beautiful amid the mess and complexity of what came before. It is a story about standing by the ones we love, even while they make mistakes. We would give anything to make our children happy. But how much should they ask?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781524777258
    Author

    Francesca Segal

    Francesca Segal is an award-winning British American writer. She is the author of a memoir, Mother Ship, and the novels The Awkward Age and The Innocents, the latter of which won the Costa Book Award for First Novel, the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and the Sami Rohr Prize, and was long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in London with her family. 

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    • 1/5

      Jul 2, 2021

      One of the worst books I have encountered in a long time.
    • 3/5

      Nov 30, 2017

      The writing is great but the only character I liked was Julia’s father-in-law. But Segal’s writing kept me reading until the end, and that says a lot. If I can’t relate to characters in some way, I often stop reading. And yet a week after finishing the book I find myself hoping that despite all the problems, they all “ended up living happily ever after.”