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For fans of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go Bernadette or Camille Pagan’s I’m Fine and Neither Are You comes the perfect laugh-out-loud dramedy And Then There's Margaret, a story about marriage, midlife, and a controlling, manipulative, and self-absorbed mother-in-law thrown into the mix.
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- Veronica Lewis
- 07-18-23
Fun Take On Life
Thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. This book/audiobook is sad and funny both. Very entertaining. Highly recommend.
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- Kelly Williams
- 06-29-23
Catchy Title, Great Book
An Then There's Margaret is a very humorous novel that everyone can identify with as we all have relationships with difficult people. Extremely well written and I loved the narration. I laughed my way through it. Highly recommend.
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- Bret Hurst
- 07-29-23
Bittersweet and touching
This is a funny sad and hopeful story about third acts and family changes. A fun and enjoyable read.
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- Kathy Brooks
- 10-18-23
Familiar Story.....in an eery way
This aubiobook is highly entertaining, and is familiar to everyone who has lived with their own Margaret. Great story, and I think many people with identify with these characters.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-08-23
Hilariously Funny...well narrated audiobook
Highly entertaining as I think many of us have our own experiences with our own Margaret. Love all the back and forth banter....definitely an enjoyable audiobook.
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- Emma Welch
- 07-18-23
Funny Take On Real Life - Thoroughly Enjoyed It
I loved this audiobook. It was funny, sad, real and a total joy to listen to. The author and narrator both did a brilliant job.
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- Mals
- 03-31-23
OMG! Where was this book before I got married?
And I thought I had the snarkiest mother-in-law ever! She was a published writer, and a highly intelligent woman who used the majority of her skills on, trying to make me feel small. Out wedding gift was a meager copy of a Betty Crocker cookbook. Inside the cover, she penned, “Hopefully now you can learn to cook!” Once, kidding, my husband called me a dummy. Her response? “ Don’t call her stupid Jim. After all, she’s a reflection on you! You married her!” When she died, her friends said to me; “Oh Honey! She thought the world of you! I said, “She must have been very dissatisfied with the world!” This book left me not feeling so all one! I laughed and vowed never to be that mother in law to my children’s spouses!
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- Barbara Smith
- 07-01-23
We All Have A Margaret In Our Lives
I loved this audiobook. I laughed out loud throughout. Filled with sarcasm and wit, it is a funny and enjoyable read. It was narrated beautifully. Highly recommend.
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- HLF
- 06-10-24
Whine, whine, whine
I would hope that in 2023 the old tired stereotype of disapproving mother-in-law’s would be long past. The narrator of the story is overall self absorbed, immature and irresponsible in many ways. The entire story is one complaint after another and never any sense of having any maturity, despite having been in a marriage for 25 years. Even the subplots are weak and contrived. Everytime I thought, okay this will be where the one dimensional characters start having some meat to them, nope - back to the old stereotypical tropes. Women are petty against women, this woman looks for trouble and can’t get out of her own way for 20 years? Ugh.
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- Daisy May
- 12-10-23
Finished for all the wrong reasons.
This was presented as a lighthearted read. It is not! Depressing and whining with a lot of new age self help mantras thrown in for good measure. The title character bullies and guilt trips her way along with no redeeming features in sight and the protagonist is hard to root for when she allows herself to be ripped to shreds at every turn. As a woman of a certain age I wanted to engage with these characters. I suffered through this plot and these characters to see how the author would bring resolution or explanation. It came as if "oops have to bring in the heartwarming scene now". It didn't work and I feel this is time out of my life that was wasted. Don't buy this thinking it will be inspiring or fun.
Performance was okay given the material she had to work with.
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