Good Eggs, Rebecca Hardiman
Good Eggs, Rebecca Hardiman
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Good Eggs

Author: Rebecca Hardiman

Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins, Gary Furlong, Siobhan Waring

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/02/2021


Synopsis

Named a Best Feel-Good Book by The Washington Post

When a home aide arrives to assist a rambunctious family at a crossroads, simmering tensions boil over in this “witty, exuberant debut” (People) that is an “absolute delight from start to finish” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author)—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Evvie Drake Starts Over.

When Kevin Gogarty’s eighty-three-year-old mother is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wits’ end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work, leaving him solo with his sulky, misbehaved teenaged daughter. Into the Gogarty fray steps Sylvia, the upbeat home aide, who appears at first to be their saving grace—until she catapults the Gogarty clan into their greatest crisis yet.

“Bracing, hilarious, warm” (Judy Blundell, New York Times bestselling author), Good Eggs is an irresistibly charming study in self-determination; the notion that it’s never too late to start living; and the unique redemption that family, despite its maddening flaws, can offer.

About Rebecca Hardiman

Rebecca Hardiman is a former magazine editor who lives in New Jersey with her husband and three children. Good Eggs is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

The title Good Eggs is a play on her struggles with infertility and the "good eggs"--friends, family--in her life that have made it meaningful. It is about being happy in spite of not getting what you want. I liked it, didn't love it, but Phoebe is increasingly likable. Maybe her relationship with h......more

Goodreads review by Raina

There were a lot of things I liked about this book. The exploration of Potts' journey to her current vocation. Her expressive drawing style. The ending. But I didn't love it, and I felt like a lot of her panels were crowded and/or hard to read (without clear direction about which order to read thing......more

Goodreads review by Stewart

I think I fell in love with this book around the sequence where she's talking about how she met her husband. It's equal parts Romance and comedy, much like real life. I was grinning from ear to ear while reading it. Phoebe and Jeff want to have a baby, but the traditional method isn't working for th......more


Quotes

"Narrators Alana Kerr Collins, Gary Furlong, and Siobhan Waring each bring a unique range that enhances the heartfelt ties and comedic repartee of the Gogarty family. Kevin cares for a full house while his wife travels for work, so he's looking for some help. A new school for Kevin's angsty teen daughter, Aideen, and a home aide for his mother, Millie, seem like solutions but, instead, spark hilarious misadventures. Collins expresses Aideen's wrath at her family in harsh tones. Furlong is as great at portraying an exasperated father as he is at capturing sniveling children. Portraying Millie, Waring delivers a raspy timbre; when Millie attempts to fake senility, Waring switches to a girlish pitch."