Happy Families, Julie Ma
Happy Families, Julie Ma
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Happy Families
The heart-warming and hilarious winner of Richard & Judy's Search for a Bestseller 2020

Author: Julie Ma

Narrator: Katie Wong

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2021


Synopsis

WINNER OF THE RICHARD & JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER 2020

'Fabulously, witty and warm – what a talent!' Milly Johnson

'A rare find' Richard Madeley

Three generations, two secrets, one extended family . . .

Amy is thirty-four and has just given up her glittering career in the big (Welsh) city to move back in with her grandfather, returning to work in the small-town Chinese takeaway where she spent her bookish and boring childhood. Why? That's a secret she won't tell.

Just like the secret of why her grandfather, Ah Goong, and her father, TC Li, haven't spoken to each other in thirty years. Weirder still, they've lived in the same small flat about the takeaway for the majority of those years, with Amy's mother Joan acting as their unfortunate go-between and buffer.

Now Amy's parents have moved, leaving her in charge of looking after the old man. But then Ah Goong collapses in the street and Amy realises time is running out if she wants to play happy families again . . .
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'Fabulously witty and warm – what a talent!' Milly Johnson

'A rare find' Richard Madeley

'Delightful . . . You'll want to devour this in seconds' Heat, 'Read of the Week'

'A take-away success of a novel. Family antics, affectionately drawn characters – this is a spit-your-noodles-out-laughing kind of read' My Weekly

'Heartening and down-to-earth, Ma's debut is one of February's must-read books' Culturefly

'Funny, sparky and heart-warming' Fabulous Magazine – The Sun on Sunday

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

As Tolstoy wrote as his opening line in Anna Karenina, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Truth in advertising: mostly these short stories give us unhappy middle- and upper-class Mexican families. The setting is modern Mexico, although since Fuentes publi......more

Είναι σίγουρα περιττό και σχεδόν απρεπές, εκ μέρους μου, να πω ότι ο Φουέντες είναι τεράστιος συγγραφέας. Το ξέρουν αυτό μέχρι κι οι πέτρες. Το ύφος του, που επιδεικνύεται σε αυτή τη συλλογή διηγημάτων - σπονδυλωτό μυθιστόρημα, απαράμιλλο. Κατέχει ένα εκατομμύριο και μία τεχνικές για να πει μια ιστο......more

Goodreads review by Daniela

Este libro estaba en una bolsa que me robaron, y no lo pude terminar. Esto no me pesa (tanto) porque llegó un momento en que dejó de ser interesante, las historias se volvieron predecibles, planas, olvidables; no hay alguna que destaque sobre las demás en poco más de la mitad que alcancé a leer y, a......more