My Daughters Wedding, Gretel Killeen
My Daughters Wedding, Gretel Killeen
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My Daughter's Wedding

Author: Gretel Killeen

Narrator: Gretel Killeen

Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/23/2021

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

Nora Fawn's daughter, Hope, disappeared four years ago. Nora has never known why.

Refusing to answer her mother's calls, emails or texts, Hope maintained contact only with her big sister, Joy. Having once considered her mothering to be the greatest achievement of her life, Nora's spent these Hope-less years searching, aching, mother-guilting, working for a famous yet talentless artist and avoiding her own emotionally repressed mother, Daphne.

But ... last night Hope rang out of the blue to say, 'I'm coming home, I'm getting married, the wedding is in three weeks and it's your job to organise it.' Desperate to prove her worth as a mother and regain her daughter's love, Nora commits to the task - assisted by her own increasingly dementia'd mother and her two best friends, Soula (an amateur bikini-line waxer) and Thilma (whom they found in a cab in the 1980s).

My Daughter's Wedding is both hilarious and profound as it explores the confounding complexity, wild terrain, mountains, valleys and quicksand found in three generations of mother-daughter love.

About Gretel Killeen

Gretel Killeen is a best-selling author, artist, award-wining comedy writer and host of award-winning TV. She's appeared on stage, film and TV as a comedian and actress, worked as one of the nation's leading voice artists, written as a journalist for many of Australia's leading news publications, directed a documentary to raise awareness of AIDS orphans in Zambia and regularly appears on TV and radio as a social/political commentator.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda - on April 26, 2021

*[URL not allowed] Light hearted, spirited, zany and witty, My Daughter’s Wedding is the latest contemporary fiction title from award winning comedy writer Gretel Killen. My Daughter’s Wedding offers an insightful look into the complexities of mother-daughter relationships across......more

Goodreads review by Renee on February 04, 2021

I found this book hilarious. It had me laughing out loud many times which I rarely do when reading. Here is one line "He has a mustache that looks like a ferret is trying to burrow sideways up his nostrils" I actually didn't know Gretel Killeen wrote books but I am so glad I got to enjoy this one of......more

Goodreads review by Linda on February 17, 2021

The wonderfully wicked humour the fabulous Gretel Killeen exudes suggested her new novel, My Daughter’s Wedding would be a riotous, rollicking adventure - and wow, it sure does pack a serious punch of side-splitting hilarity. The story centres around Nora Fawn and her daughters, Joy and Hope. After n......more

Goodreads review by Laura on February 24, 2021

Hope vanished four years ago. Her mother, Nora, never knew why. Hope refused to answer her mother’s calls, emails or texts. While she maintained contact with her sister, Joy, her mother heard nothing. Until she suddenly reappears, calling her mother - ‘I’m coming home, I’m getting married’. I really......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 11, 2021

[URL not allowed] Contemporary women’s fiction about three generations of mother-daughter love, Gretel Killeen’s My Daughter’s Wedding is a fast-paced exploration into the complex family dynamics between women, and how broken relationships can always be mended. I liked the structure of the nove......more