The Spinster Diaries, Gina Fattore
The Spinster Diaries, Gina Fattore
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The Spinster Diaries

Author: Gina Fattore

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 4 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2020

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in LA, wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she’s a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty much invented the chick-lit novel.A semi-autobiographical unromantic comedy, The Spinster Diaries is a laugh-out-loud satire of both the TV business and the well-worn conventions of chick lit—as well as the true tale of the forgotten writer who inspired Jane Austen to greatness. It’s an endearing and refreshingly honest testament to how one person’s life can reach out across the centuries to touch another’s.

About Gina Fattore

Gina Fattore is executive producer of the USA series Dare Me. She’s also written for Parenthood, Californication, Gilmore Girls, and Dawson’s Creek. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Chicago Reader, The Millions, Salon, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

About Tanya Eby

Tanya Eby is an Audie-nominated and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. AudioFile magazine says, "Listening to Tanya Eby is like listening to a full-cast recording." Tanya has a BA in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing. Besides narrating, Tanya blogs and works on her own novels. She has published four novels and is at work on her fifth.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on May 10, 2020

My friend Gina from high school wrote this book... and it is like curling up to have a long chat with her. It is just as funny and smart as she is! Bravo, Gina!❤️......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on March 30, 2020

I was pretty excited to read this book, expecting a light hearted and fun story about a perpetually single modern woman (much like myself). Instead I found the book to be dry and droll and generally uninteresting. It started strong with the immediate introduction of the brain tumor but quickly devol......more

Goodreads review by Lian on April 24, 2020

Wanna be a TV writer? Novelist is Gina Fattore has written for some of your favorite shows like Parenthood and Gilmore Girls, so she has the credentials to take you indie the side of a middle-aged, mildly neurotic TV writer with a serious health issue and obsession with an 18th century British novel......more

Goodreads review by Edna on April 24, 2020

For a book that will divert you from the travails of the present day, dive into this entertaining romp through late 18th century England and early 21st century Hollywood. Two talented writers - British Frances Burney and her modern LA. fan - deal with the remarkably similar issues that confront inte......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on April 12, 2020

The best thing about this semiautographical novel is ....Franny Burney, an author I'll bet most have missed (I know I have). That's not fair to the narrator (or Fattore) but honestly, this book was a discovery of two writers. I suspect many will grow weary of the narrator's fretting and neurosis but......more

Quotes

“Witty, whip-smart and winning…a sheer delight.” Megan Abbott, Edgar Award–winning author

“A heartfelt, hilarious, and addictively un-put-downable story of anxiety, ambition, and love (or learning to live without it) in twenty-first-century L.A. and eighteenth-century Britain.” Adam Langer, author of Crossing California

“You have a woman you root for who makes Bridget Jones seem like a boring cow and a book that makes you laugh and, well, not cry exactly, because she is resilient, decent as hell, and whip-smart, and it is such a special pleasure to watch her find her unique way of being in a world that doesn’t deserve her.” George Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author

“Like Carrie Fisher, Fattore is funny as hell and in love with words and curious things.” David Duchovny, actor and author of Holy Cow

“Paying homage to women who self-actualize through their art, The Spinster Diaries focuses on two women separated by time who live out their beliefs…Their resilience and humor are dominant and infectious. Fanny inspires Gina to maintain hope in the face of death, even as she herself outlives everyone she loves. The ending is unexpected and delightful.” Foreword Reviews

“A humorous and heartfelt look at the expectations women have lived with, and triumphed over, across the centuries.” Kirkus Reviews

“Sign me up for the Gina Fattore fan club. I adore her.” George Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author

“An utter delight from start to finish.” Adam Langer, author of Crossing California

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