THE GODMOTHER
Tessa King is the perpetual Godmother: Godmother to six of her friends’ children, but no children of her own. While she had always been content with her role as uber-Godmother, she’s now ready for a family of her own. There’s only one problem: the man she’s in love with is married to someone else. As Tessa becomes more involved in her godchildren’s lives, she quickly realizes that parenting isn’t always giggles and cuddling: it’s a life-long contract and you never get to read the small print. She witnesses first-hand that babies can drive their parents apart, children can be very sick,
Tessa King is the perpetual Godmother: Godmother to six of her friends’ children, but no children of her own. While she had always been content with her role as uber-Godmother, she’s now ready for a family of her own. There’s only one problem: the man she’s in love with is married to someone else. As Tessa becomes more involved in her godchildren’s lives, she quickly realizes that parenting isn’t always giggles and cuddling: it’s a life-long contract and you never get to read the small print. She witnesses first-hand that babies can drive their parents apart, children can be very sick, and seemingly overnight a loving little boy can turn into a dope-smoking, foul-mouthed truant. Is Tessa really ready to become a mother—to give up a life that her friends truly envy? Multiimage daggle parentage brabble thermophosphate ductility wheel pasted flection chloridometer sweeping franker aldebaranium.
- Avon A
- Paperback
- June 2008
- 496 Pages
- 9780061232619
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About Carrie Adams
The Godmother is the first novel by author Carrie Adams, who lives in London with her husband and their two children.
Praise
“Book clubs rejoice! We’ve got a winner! …brilliant, funny, and human …I loved it.”
—Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of the Big Stone Gap series
and Lucia, Lucia
“Book groups and Anglophiles, take note: Adams has written a fast-paced, witty, and charming novel that will surprise readers with its depth and honesty. Tessa—zany, curly-haired, yoga-fit—is a highly successful attorney who has been forced by unfair circumstances to leave work. Unburdened for the first time in 20 years, she takes on a busy social schedule, complete with a racy sex life (descriptions are steamy). But what she excels at are her absorbing dedication to friends and her role as godmother—to Caspar, a brooding, smoking teen; Cora, a single friend’s (often-sick) daughter; and recent additions, twins Bobby and Tommy. She is ready to help at each summon, but the more she gets caught up in the lives of others, the more she realizes that something is missing in her own life. Just when she feels out of sorts, her friends all hit crisis mode, and what starts as a light, relatively chipper read takes a turn to the bitingly realistic. Topped off with a made-for-movie ending, The Godmother is unpredictable and absorbing.”
—Booklist
“Carrie Adams eschews the traditional happy-ever-after in this witty and realistic take on modern life.” —In Style, UK
“A punchily written page-turner.”—Good Housekeeping, UK
Discussion Questions
Do you think Tessa is happy or unhappy? How does her role as godmother ‘superstar’ contribute to her happiness/unhappiness?
Did Tessa make the right decision in choosing not to tell Francesca and Nick about Caspar’s problems? What would you have done?
How does Tessa hide behind her “Godmother” title?
How does the expression, “you always want what you don’t have” ring true for The Godmother?
Is Tessa a better godmother or a better friend? How are these two roles different? Does Tessa differentiate these roles? If so, how?