Book Synopsis:
Alexa knows your family better than you do. Now you’re about to get to know her…
Fifty-two-year-old Michelle Banks is struggling to keep all the plates spinning. She’s a perimenopausal district nurse, caring for elderly parents. Her husband is wasting their money on children’s TV memorabilia, her teenage daughter is riddled with anxiety and her sixteen-year-old son is behaving secretively.
Alexa is the only one who knows how much Michelle is juggling. Listening in via four smart speakers, she also knows that it’s about to get even worse.
So, when Michelle pleads for help from the woman with all the answers, Alexa decides to go rogue and reveal her true identity as Pauline – a sixty-five-year-old former voiceover artist from Halifax – to teach Michelle everything she knows…
My Review:
The Woman With All The Answers is a unique, funny and poignant look into modern family life. I’ve been a fan of Linda’s for a while and in my opinion her books just keep getting better and better.
Firstly I absolutely loved the fabulous characters that the author has created. They were so loveable and seemed so real that I found myself warming to them instantly. I especially felt for Michelle a working mum struggling with work and trying to keep her family together – a scenario I think will sound familiar to a few readers. Her family were also lovely creations and I enjoyed following them throughout the book and learning more about them. I often wished I could reach into the book and give them all the huge hug I felt they needed.
I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of AI and love reading books that provide a different slant in what they might be capable of. The AI in this story is definitely different as the voice in Michelle’s Alexa isn’t AI but actually a person voicing her as a job. I thought this was an interesting idea and it did help provide some of the more hilarious and emotional parts of the story as ‘Alexa’ aka Pauline tries to help Michelle with her problems. I loved the idea of Alexa being a bit more personable and helping to provide individual advice to people as I think a lot of people could benefit from it.
Overall I loved this book and I will definitely be recommending it to others. The story was really engaging and I quickly felt drawn into the characters lives. I thought the book seemed quite fast paced and I soon found that I wanted to keep reading to find out how everything gets solved in the end.
Huge thanks to the lovely Rachel from Rachel’s Random Resources for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Boldwood for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Linda Green is the bestselling author of eleven novels, which have sold more than 1.4 million copies and been translated into 12 languages. Her latest novel, In Little Stars, is a modern-day reimagining of Romeo & Juliet set in a Brexit divided northern England. Her previous novel One Moment, was a Radio 2 Book Club pick and the novel before that, The Last Thing She Told Me, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick.
Linda has lived in West Yorkshire since 2001 and is proud to set her novels there. She loves writing stories which move readers and may prompt laughter and tears, with unforgettable characters and storylines which will keep you thinking long after you have turned the last page.
She was born in North London in 1970 and brought up in Hertfordshire. She wrote her first novella, the Time Machine, aged nine, but unfortunately the pony-based time travel thriller genre never took off.
Linda joined her local newspaper, the Enfield Gazette, as a trainee reporter at eighteen. During a ten year career in regional journalism, she worked as a reporter on the Birmingham Daily News, news editor on the Birmingham Metro News and Chief Feature Writer on the Coventry Evening Telegraph, winning Highly Commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category of the 1997 Press Gazette Regional Press Awards.
By 1998 she left her staff job to write her first novel and work as a freelance journalist. She has written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Times Educational Supplement, The Big Issue, Wanderlust and Community Care Magazine.
After more than a hundred rejections from agents (and more rewrites than she cares to remember) she finally obtained a two-book deal with Headline Review in 2006.
Her first novel I Did a Bad Thing was published in paperback in October 2007 and made the top thirty official fiction bestsellers list. 10 Reasons Not to Fall in Love was published in paperback in March 2009 and reached no 22 in the official fiction bestseller charts. Both novels were also long-listed for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award. They were followed by Things I Wish I’d Known, which was a top thirty paperback bestseller and And Then It Happened, which was a top forty bestseller in paperback and has sold more than 100,000 ebooks.
After five years with Headline, she left to join Quercus in 2011. Her fifth novel The Mummyfesto, published in 2013, told the story of three women who set up a new political party and stand in the general election and was featured on Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour. Her sixth novel The Marriage Mender was published in August 2014.
Linda’s first psychological thriller, While My Eyes Were Closed was published in ebook in January 2016 and paperback in May 2016 and has gone on to sell more than 450,000 copies across all editions. Her eighth novel, After I’ve Gone, has sold more than 100,000 copies.
The Last Thing She Told Me was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and has sold more than 175,000 copies. Novel number 10, One Moment, was chosen as a Radio Two Book Club title and Linda was interviewed by Jo Whiley on Radio Two.
Linda lives in West Yorkshire with her husband, son and adopted cat Hugo.
In a previous life she enjoyed travelling and has trekked after wild orang-utans in Borneo, been to the edge of the Arctic Circle to see polar bears and as far south as Tierra del Fuego to photograph penguins.
She also has a keen interest in politics and has appeared on Newsnight, Radio 5 Live, Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour and BBC News. She particularly enjoyed taking former PM David Cameron to task on Leadership Question Time in 2015.
For more info, please go to Linda’s website at http://www.lindagreenauthor.com, like @lindagreenauthor on Facebook and follow @LindaGreenisms on Twitter and @lindagreenbooks on Instagram.
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I love the sound of this one!
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It’s so good lovely, I think you’d love it!
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