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The Single Mum's Wish List
- Author
- Charlene Allcott
- Narrator
- Jennifer Saayeng
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 18 April 2019
- Run Time
- 10 hours 38 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Single Mum's Wish List written by Charlene Allcott, read by Jennifer Saayeng.
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'One of the freshest, funniest, most exciting new voices I’ve read for a long time' JANE FALLON
'Fresh and funny and REAL ... Martha really spoke to me. She will steal everyone's heart!' VERONICA HENRY
'Beautifully written and emotionally intelligent. I rooted for Martha from the start.' Daily Mail
Meet Martha Ross. She dreams of being a singer, but she’s been working in a call centre for far too long. She’s separating from her husband, the father of her son. And she’s moving back home to her parents’ as a single mum, toddler in tow.
Life has thrown her a few lemons . . . but Martha intends to make a gin and tonic. It’s time to become the woman she’s always wanted to be. And at least her mum’s on hand to provide childcare – and ample motherly judgement, of course.
Soon Martha realises that in order to find lasting love and fulfilment, she needs to find herself first . . . But her attempts at reinvention – from writing a definitive wish list of everything she wants in a new man, to half-marathons, business plans and meditation retreats – tend to go awry in the most surprising of ways . . .
A warm, vibrant and painfully funny novel for fans of Why Mummy Drinks, Fiona Gibson and Lucy Vine.
*Also published as The Reinvention of Martha Ross*
Critics Review
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What fabulous, confident writing! One of the freshest, funniest, most exciting new voices I've read for a long time.
Jane Fallon
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Beautifully written and emotionally intelligent. I rooted for Martha from the start.
Sara Lawrence, Daily Mail
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Fresh and funny and REAL ... Martha really spoke to me. She will steal everyone's heart!
Veronica Henry
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Very funny and delightfully relatable - this was a real treat.
Trisha Ashley
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[A] warm and insightful debut with a clever, funny and totally relatable heroine.
S magazine, Sunday Express
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We've all been a 'Martha Ross' at some point, so we loved this hilarious and moving novel about starting afresh
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Details
- Author
- Charlene Allcott
- Narrator
- Jennifer Saayeng
- Duration
- 10 hours 38 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 April 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473573000
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Romance, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Modern and Contemporary romance, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Single Mum's Wish List written by Charlene Allcott, read by Jennifer Saayeng.--------------------------'One of the freshest, funniest, most exciting new voices I’ve read for a long time' JANE FALLON'Fresh and funny and REAL ... Martha really spoke to me. She will steal everyone's heart!' VERONICA HENRY'Beautifully written and emotionally intelligent. I rooted for Martha from the start.' Daily MailMeet Martha Ross. She dreams of being a singer, but she’s been working in a call centre for far too long. She’s separating from her husband, the father of her son. And she’s moving back home to her parents’ as a single mum, toddler in tow.Life has thrown her a few lemons . . . but Martha intends to make a gin and tonic. It’s time to become the woman she’s always wanted to be. And at least her mum’s on hand to provide childcare – and ample motherly judgement, of course.Soon Martha realises that in order to find lasting love and fulfilment, she needs to find herself first . . . But her attempts at reinvention – from writing a definitive wish list of everything she wants in a new man, to half-marathons, business plans and meditation retreats – tend to go awry in the most surprising of ways . . . A warm, vibrant and painfully funny novel for fans of Why Mummy Drinks, Fiona Gibson and Lucy Vine. *Also published as The Reinvention of Martha Ross*
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