Olive, Emma Gannon
Olive, Emma Gannon
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Olive

Author: Emma Gannon

Narrator: Sian Clifford

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/09/2021


Synopsis

The debut novel about the life-changing choices we make about careers, love, friendship, and motherhood from bestselling UK author Emma Gannon.

Olive is many things. Independent. Driven. Loyal. And a little bit adrift.

She’s okay with still figuring it all out, navigating her world without a compass. But life comes with expectations and big choices to be made. So when her best friends’ lives branch away towards marriage and motherhood, leaving the path they’ve always followed together, she starts to question her choices—because life according to Olive looks a little bit different.

Moving, memorable, and a mirror for anyone at a crossroads, OLIVE has a little bit of all of us. Told with humor and great warmth, this is a modern tale about the obstacle course of adulthood and the challenges of having—and deciding not to have—children.
 
 

About The Author

Emma Gannon is an author, speaker, columnist, and the host of the multi-million downloaded podcast Ctrl Alt Delete. She has been published everywhere from the Guardian to Glamour (UK) and is the author of The Multi-Hyphen Life and Sabotage. This is her debut novel. She currently lives in London with her partner.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on May 16, 2020

I'm probably too old to read Olive. Perhaps a bit too cynical too. I'm 'child-free by choice' (CFBC as the books terms it) and I've never found it to be the cause of any drama whatsoever. I've always believed that women my age (55) are part of the first generation to have the choice to not have kids......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on June 04, 2020

Olive Stone now 33, has been friends with Bea, Isla and Cecily since school days. Olive is ambitious and doing very well in her journalistic career at .dot magazine. She has no maternal urges whatsoever which leads to a split from long term boyfriend Jacob who wants children. Although the book focus......more