Amazing Grace by Kim Nash
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
If you want to be smiling 2% into a story, Amazing Grace is the book for you. I was totally empathising with Grace immediately and wanted to beam myself into the kitchen when she was agonising over the dreaded invitation and give her a firm hug. As a single mum, I found Grace’s angst about her looks and her identity crisis totally relatable to. However, I think most women would, mother, married, single… whatever. Grace is real, someone you could easily imagine meeting in the supermarket. Or the swishing shop! What a brilliant idea! Grace’s story is about a woman who is full of self-doubt and needs to learn to love herself. It’s also about the loneliness of single-parenthood and the grief that never quite goes away over the loss of a mother, particularly when you might have lost her at a time when you needed her most. The letters from Grace’s mum are poignant tearjerkers. Trust me, you will go through the whole gamut of emotions reading this book, from chuckling out loud to weeping. As many would know, learning to love yourself is not so easy when your self-confidence has been corroded away by a twit of an ex who didn’t appreciate the gorgeous, loving, intelligent woman he had. And then he wants her back? Ride on, Mark. Thank God for best friends who are there with a shoulder and skills to give Grace a successful makeover. Best show them the door when they suggest the internet dating though. And then we have Vinnie, the very worthy gardener, and you so want Grace to choose him, providing he can prove himself worthy in her son Archie’s eyes. He’s a gem. You can see why any mum would pour her love into him.
Amazing Grace is a delightfully refreshing, funny, heart-warming and poignant story. The author’s voice is distinctive and honest. I loved it and would highly recommend it.
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