Ada's Rules
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- 16,99 €
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- 16,99 €
Descrizione dell’editore
'A wonderful, warm and funny novel about a woman taking control of her life. Truly inspiring' Katie Fforde
'I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it. I read it in one sitting' Jane Green, author of The Patchwork Marriage
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Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her husband, of course, and the flock that comes with him, plus the kids at the day care centre where she works, two grown daughters, and two ailing, wayward parents. It's no wonder she can't find time to take care of herself. And her husband's been so busy lately she's suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him...
Then it comes: the announcement of her twenty-five-year college reunion in twelve months' time, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. It sets Ada thinking about the thrills of young love lost, and the hundred or so pounds gained since her college days, and she decides it's high time to change her body, and her life.
So she starts laying down some rules. The first rule is: Don't Keep Doing What You've Always Been Doing. And so begins her unforgettable journey on the way to less weight and more love...
For anyone who has ever found themselves at a crossroads, with one hand in their pocket and the other in the cookie jar, Ada's Rules is a warm, funny and soulfully wise novel about falling back in love with the life you have.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It is impossible not to fall in love with the plucky plus-size heroine of bestselling author Randall's fourth outing (after Rebel Yell). When Ada Howard wife of Lucius "Preach" Howard, the pastor of Nashville's Full Love Gospel Tabernacle (whom Ada suspects of getting love not just from the Lord, but from another woman) receives an invitation to her 25th college reunion, she takes the opportunity to reclaim the thin body she once had, in hopes of impressing her college sweetheart. Ada draws up a list of 53 sensible diet rules, and vows to follow every last one. Rule #1: "Don't Keep Doing What You've Always Been Doing." Randall uses each maxim as a chapter heading, leading readers deeper into Ada's struggle and self-discovery while she drops the pounds. As Ada learns that any meaningful change must be made for one's own self, she inspires and energizes those around her. A heartwarming and engaging read, Ada's story is more than that readers following Randall's rules will drop the pounds along with Ada, and perhaps discover something about themselves.
