Cover the Butter, Carrie Kabak
Cover the Butter, Carrie Kabak
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Cover the Butter

Author: Carrie Kabak

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2005

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

Get ready to cheer for Kate Cadogan, a fortysomething woman who has spent her life trying to please her husband, her son, her mother, and her father without a moment's thought to her own needs. Until one day, when a series of events causes her to slip back in time…

For the first time Kate sees her life clearly–her dreams of becoming a caterer; the delicate yet combustible relationship she shares with her mother; and the unflagging support of her two best friends.

Kate finds the courage to make a break and, energized by her newfound freedom, she creates a life all her own.

Buoyant and deeply moving, Cover the Butter proves that starting over has nothing to do with age and everything to do with spirit.

"[Kabak's] way of encapsulating decades in a few swift strokes takes this tale well beyond the standard middle-age revenge formula." –Kirkus Reviews

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meg on November 30, 2010

Carrie Kabak's Cover The Butter is the story of one woman's coming-of-age: the twists, turns and broken relationships that brought her to that wrecked kitchen in what was once her marital home. We're introduced to her controlling and manipulative mother, Biddy; her mousy but attentive father, To......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on January 03, 2019

This was the first book written by Kabak. I was impressed with her writing style. Very descriptive and real. Although the toxic family, family angst, personal trials suffered by the main character, etc, really got to be a bit much for me, I stuck with the book. One can't help rooting for the main ch......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on February 28, 2021

This is a cheery book about a nasty mother, her daughter from pre-teen to 44, a totally dysfunctional family the daughter marries into, all taking place in England. In reading it, you want to smack the mom, shake the father and tell Katie to just find some gumption. Of course, her mother also heaps......more

Goodreads review by April on June 23, 2021

Good book but where was the time travel?......more

Goodreads review by Zach on August 07, 2022

Oof.......more


Awards

  • AudioFile Earphones Award