Life After Coffee

Name: Life After Coffee
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Virginia Franken
ISBN: 9781531835224

Author: Virginia Franken

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 09/13/2016

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Humorous, Women

Synopsis

When globe-trotting coffee buyer Amy O’Hara, assures her husband—who stays at home to watch the kids—that it is He Who Has it Harder…she doesn’t really believe it. That is, until the day she gets laid off, her husband locks himself in the garage to write the Great American Screenplay, and she discovers she’s actually the world’s most incompetent mother.Overnight, Amy’s world is no longer one of farmer negations and upscale coffee tastings. Instead she’s spending her days attempting to discover where exactly she went wrong with her two resentful children and trying to carve out a place within her local community of put-together neighborhood moms. However, as their family dynamic begins to change in both fun and frustrating ways, she’s starting to ask herself the big questions: Can her marriage survive this kind of role reversal? How do you clean puke out from in between the seams of a car seat? And what does she really amount to when the job she thought defined her is removed from the equation?One thing is certain: whatever happens, she’s going to need a lot more caffeine.

About Virginia Franken

Virginia Franken was born and raised in the United Kingdom. She graduated from the University of Roehampton, in London, with a degree in dance and worked on cruise liners as a professional dancer before changing tracks to pursue a career in publishing. Franken currently lives in suburban Los Angeles with two kids, a dog, an overweight goldfish, and one bearded dude, in a house that’s just a little too small to fit everyone in comfortably. She gets most of her writing done when she should be sleeping. This is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on December 15, 2016

This was a fun fast read! As a SAHM it was kind of funny to picture a mom try to figure it all out by winging it!......more

Goodreads review by Theresa on September 25, 2016

I loved, loved this book. The world needs more of these kind of books. It’s funny and fast-paced; it’s great. The premise is that Amy has a five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, but Amy has spent most of the five years since she had her first kid traveling the world sourcing the finest coffe......more

Goodreads review by Camille on April 28, 2017

This was the kind of book that had me ignoring other things in my life in order to finish it. While I was initially intrigued by a cute cover and compelling title, Life After Coffee is actually a story about the reality of working-mom dynamics, the breakdown of the family, and all the ways we are to......more

Goodreads review by Mrs Mommy Booknerd on October 06, 2016

Hilarious, fun and so relatable LIFE AFTER COFFEE is a must read! I seriously was laughing out loud several times. Franken has found a way to perfectly capture daily dialogue of both family and self. It is such a refreshing take on life...the real side of life, not the side that people try to show t......more

Goodreads review by DJ on September 16, 2016

My Rating: 4.5 Favorite Quotes: She is so beautiful that ‘beating them off with a stick’ isn’t going to cut it when she’s older. Peter and I are going to have to keep her in a smooth-sided cloud-high tower surrounded by a team of elite ninjas. ‘Mommy! Come and wipe my butt!’ Knowing better than to igno......more

Quotes

“Life After Coffee is a highly entertaining exploration of life as a working mother. I couldn't put this book down! I recommend this satisfying read to anyone looking to dive into a good story.” —Mary Holland, actor, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates“I loved, loved this book. The world needs more of these kinds of books. It’s funny and fast-paced; it’s great!” —Theresa Alan, New York Times bestselling author of Who You Know“Laugh-out-loud funny, startlingly poignantly, and eminently relatable. I loved every minute of Life After Coffee.” —Kate Hewitt, USA Today bestselling author of the Hartley-by-the Sea series