I’m currently on a Carmel Harrington binge listen. I listened to A Mother’s Heart just over a year ago and it was incredible, and now I’ve decided it’s time for more. I love the Irish narrators with their lilting voices and right now I can’t get enough of them.
My Pear-Shaped Life was a great listen, with loveable characters and thought-provoking, sometimes difficult themes throughout. Greta is our female protagonist in this book and she’s simply amazing, even if she doesn’t believe it herself a lot of the time.
Greta has to accept that life isn’t going quite the way she would like right now and is finding it difficult to accept that maybe, just maybe, she needs some help, both personal and professional. Her family is right behind her, most of the time, Greta just needs to realise that.
I loved that Carmel incorporates a US road trip into Greta’s story, something which my husband and I are doing more and more as we get older. With an end destination of Las Vegas - my happy place - it just made me smile as I look forward to our next trip.
Focusing highly on family values, and the love and support of the people who care for you, My Pear-Shaped Life is an enjoyable listen (or read) and may just help anyone lacking in a little self-confidence to look at things in a different light.
Thank you to Libby for providing the opportunity and the availability to bring books to life for so many people and thank you to Carmel Harrington for being such an incredible writer. Never stop writing!
About the Book
This is a joyful, uplifting book for those of us who sometimes wake up and feel we’re not good enough. Spoiler alert: we are!
Meet Greta.
She’s funny.
She’s flawed.
She’s hiding so much behind her big smile she’s forgotten who she is.
But Greta is about to discover that the key to being happy is…being you.
Greta Gale has played the part of the funny fat one her entire life, hiding her insecurities behind a big smile. But size doesn’t matter when you can laugh at yourself, right?
Until Greta realises she’s the only one not laughing. And deep down, she’s not sure if she’ll ever laugh again.
But with her world feeling like it’s falling down around her, Greta is about to discover she’s stronger than she feels. And that sometimes the best moments in life come when it’s all gone a bit pear-shaped…
International bestseller Carmel Harrington lives in Wexford with her family & rescue dog. Carmel writes domestic dramas filled with emotional reveals and twists. Her trademark is to write authentic, relatable characters that readers can root for, and has been described as a ‘storyteller with heart, hope and humour.’ (RTE Culture)
A confessed wearer-of-heart-on-her-sleeve, Carmel smiles a lot because life is good. She knowingly overuses the word lovely. Speaking of which, she calls it chasing the lovely when she writes. A few of her favourite things include rainbows, good coffee and gin, notions – all of them, lemon drizzle cake and books. Always books.
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