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    A Happy Catastrophe: A Novel
    A Happy Catastrophe: A Novel
    A Happy Catastrophe: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    A Happy Catastrophe: A Novel

    Written by Maddie Dawson

    Narrated by Amy McFadden

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners comes a novel about love, loss, and the beautiful mess of family.

    Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are imperfectly perfect together. Still, there are some things that maybe need a little attention. Marnie’s ebullient; he’s brooding. She thrives on change; he prefers stability. She sees marriage and parenthood in their future, but he can’t see beyond the shadow of an earlier tragedy.

    Then an eight-year-old surprise from Patrick’s past shows up on their doorstep, cartwheeling into their lives and spinning things in all directions. While it’s not exactly the change she envisioned, it looks like instant family to Marnie. But Patrick, afraid of being hurt again, retreats further into himself. Suddenly, two very different pieces of a beautiful puzzle find it harder and harder to fit. How can Marnie trust in the magic of the universe when it seems to be doing its best to knock her off her feet?

    But some love stories are worth waiting for. And what’s love without a little chaos anyway?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 26, 2020
    ISBN9781799750543
    A Happy Catastrophe: A Novel
    Author

    Maddie Dawson

    Maddie Dawson grew up in the South, born into a family of outrageous storytellers. Her various careers as a substitute English teacher, department-store clerk, medical-records typist, waitress, cat sitter, wedding-invitation-company receptionist, nanny, day care worker, electrocardiogram technician, and Taco Bell taco maker were made bearable by thinking up stories as she worked. Today Maddie lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with her husband. She’s the bestselling author of six previous novels: Matchmaking for Beginners, The Survivor’s Guide to Family Happiness, The Opposite of Maybe, The Stuff That Never Happened, Kissing Games of the World, and A Piece of Normal.

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    • 5/5
      I LOVE LOVE LOVED this book.

      This book provided everything. Happiness, anger, grief, healing and tears mixed with all of the above. Each of the main characters were provided with plenty of exposure and background in this story without over doing any of it.
      I really liked how the males POV in the story was mostly told from an “outsider” voice. IMO, it portrayed the character perfectly as he struggled with anxiety, ptsd and was a huge introvert.

      Beautifully written and executed!!