Product Description

Tessa King is successful and unattached. She's got a lovely apartment and nice clothes, and nothing ties her down - that's the way she likes it.

Tessa also has four godchildren. A fifteen-year-old pot-smoking rebel who hates his parents. A seven-year-old whose father walked out on her mother when she was still in hospital. And two screaming baby twins who are unattractive, double the trouble, and ruining their parents' relationship. That's why Tessa's not particularly maternal.

Sometimes it's great to have nothing tying you down. And then sometimes, you start to realise something's missing ...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111678 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Eve Magazine
'Move aside chick-lit, this is chick noir...an intelligent breath
of fresh air for a tired genre'

In Style Magazine
'In the Godmother, Carrie Adams eschews traditional
happy-ever-after in this witty and realistic take on modern life'

Good Housekeeping Magazine
'A punchily written page-turner'

Customer Reviews

Chick Noir?
It took me just one afternoon sat in the sun to read this book. The life of Tessa and her superb circle of friends gripped me from the first word. Tackling everything from miscarriage, infidelity, death and one night stands, Carrie Adams has written the perfect antidote to all those sickly sweet tales of love and happy ever after, without being cynical or depressing. At 36 and single Tessa is battling with her inner body clock, whilst coping with the responsibilities of Godmotherhood...and the steady stream of "life" that's thrown at her from every side. As her friends lives threaten to obliterate her own, she is engulfed by the simple truth that she is desperate for her own "happy ever after" but soon realises that the grass is very rarely as green as you envisage it to be.... I was moved to tears throughout this book, but it also has its fair share of belly chuckles. I can't wait for Carrie Adams next one, and hope the move from Crime Fiction to Chick Noir is a permanent one.

I absolutely LOVED it!
Having moved away from chick-lit over the last year or so, I wasn't sure whether The Godmother would keep me entertained. However, as I was lucky enough to be given a copy, I gave it a go and can honestly say I couldn't put it down. Unlike usual chick-lit, the book is about much more than finding and keeping your man. It takes you through Tessa's personal journey, as she learns about priorities and what is important in life, coming to terms with certain aspects of her personality and history that were apparent to everyone but Tessa herself. Tessa is a character that most women who have ever been single will relate to, but she is much more than a party girl about town - as her friends keep trying to tell her. I genuinely cared about Tessa and what happened to her, and was very nearly moved to tears on the tube on more than one occassion. This is a fresh spin on chick-lit and is something different, BUY IT!

The best that Chic lit has to offer
I absolutely loved this book. After my first experience of chic lit (Jane Green's Straight Talking) I have never been able to find anything that quite matched it in terms of empathising with the characters. This is an intelligent, funny and enjoyable read that really does appeal to all women in their late twenties/ early thirties - wherever they be in their finding love/ marrying/ pro-creating quests. A fantastic reminder that it's not a competition and that the grass isn't always greener on the other side.