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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters.

When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as "Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue." This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom - with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism - would be nothing more than background chatter for the rest of Kelly’s life, which she was carefully orienting toward adventure. After college, armed with a backpack, her personal mission statement, and a wad of traveler’s checks, she took off for Australia to see things and do things and Become Interesting.

But it didn’t turn out the way she pictured it. In a matter of months, her savings shot, she had a choice: get a job or go home. That’s how Kelly met John Tanner, a newly widowed father of two looking for a live-in nanny. They chatted for an hour, discussed timing and pay, and a week later, Kelly moved in. And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, 10,000 miles from the house where she was raised, her mother’s voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked. Every day she spent with the Tanner kids was a day spent reconsidering her relationship with her mother, turning it over in her hands like a shell, straining to hear whatever messages might be trapped in its spiral.

This is a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly it’s about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time.
©2014 Kelly Corrigan (P)2014 Random House Audio

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"Kelly Corrigan’s heartfelt homage to motherhood is every bit as tough and funny as it is nostalgic and searching. It’s a tale about growing up, gaining wisdom, and reconciling with Mom (something we all must do eventually), but it’s also an honest meditation on our deepest fears of death and abandonment. I loved this book, I was moved by this book, and now I will share this book with my own mother - along with my renewed appreciation for certain debts of love that can never be repaid." (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love)
"In this endearing, funny, and thought-provoking memoir, Kelly Corrigan’s memories of long-ago adventures illuminate the changing relationships between mothers and children - as well as everything else that really matters." (Gretchen Rubin, New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Project)
"Kelly Corrigan parses the bittersweet complexities of motherhood with humor and grace. Her writing has depth and buoyancy and light. It's a river on a summer day. You slip into the current, laughing, and are carried away by it. Glitter and Glue is a perfect gift for anyone with a mother." (Mary Roach, New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Spook)

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  • Global
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  • Kathy
  • 19/04/2015

Funny and poinant; great for moms with older moms

I saw this book in print but decided that I wanted to hear the author's voice. She obviously imitated her mother's vocal and speech patterns, which I found delightful. Our relationships as daughters are often complex, and Kelly "Corrigan nails it.

She tells of a temporary nanny job while traveling with a friend and making a difference in the lives of her recently motherless young charges. Her desire to be both far from and yet linked to her mom is delightful. Her memories of how her own mom handled things as Kelly was growing up are interspersed with her time in Australia as the nanny.

The book shifts to later in Kelly's life, and the continuing need for and tangled relationship with her mom. Overall I'd call this a love story. No relationship is perfect, but in the end, Corrigan realizes the gift of her mom being the glue in her life, which she can be for her own children.

I will read this again and give it to my daughter who now has a growing family. If you want an honest book, written with humor and love, but not saccharine, this is a book for you.

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  • Gabberooni
  • 27/01/2015

Loved every minute of the author's narration.

Kelly Corrigan tells a great story about the glue that holds a family together...the mother. Her narration is wonderful; I love her "mother's voice" best of all. I promise you will laugh and cry as you listen.

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  • Global
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  • Roma
  • 10/05/2018

The perfect pre-Mother’s Day Read

I’ve had this title in my Audible queue for well over a year and decided it was time to give it a listen. I’m incredibly picky about the sound of a narrators voice, so I was delighted to find that the authors tone and cadence was to my liking.
The story is heartfelt, well written and a great example of how mother/daughter relationships aren’t all sunshine and happiness. They are messy, complicated and often turbulent.

  • Global
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  • Nebraska book lover
  • 15/01/2018

Beautiful

Lovely and very personal story about our relationships with our Mothers. This is, indeed, the Great Adventure.

  • Global
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  • jayne sharyer
  • 13/04/2017

Mother

A mother is everything in a family. Especially to girls. This was a great story of just what a mother means in a family. She is the heart and soul of a family. Loved it.

  • Global
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  • Kindle Customer
  • 09/03/2017

A book with a great message of appreciation!

I listened to this audio book. I enjoyed and appreciated the message of loving those closest to you, learning to be grateful for loved ones in your lives and not taking life for granted.
it was a good story but I must admit that I would have enjoyed it more with a different reader. I know it was the author who experienced it all herself, but I had to keep reminding myself that so I wouldn't get annoyed. She was too monotoned for me to not be annoyed and that ruined the read a little for me. otherwise, I enjoyed the book.

  • Global
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  • LizLab
  • 08/07/2016

Loved it!!!!!

This is a beautiful memoir that captures perfectly the feelings of an adult daughter for her mother as she grows through womanhood as a wife and mother herself. I loved all of it. Now on to My Antonia!

  • Global
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  • Melinda Little
  • 23/04/2016

Beautiful Book

This a heartfelt retelling of the important, but complicated bond between mother's and their daughters. I loved this!

  • Global
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Kelly Wood
  • 03/03/2016

A daughter learning to appreciate your mother

Light reading, but it is beautiful. For daughters and mothers great insight into great love.

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  • Ann
  • 16/09/2015

Loved this!

If you could sum up Glitter and Glue in three words, what would they be?

Story of all of our lives in one way or another

What did you like best about this story?

Kelly's voice, inflections and insight

Which character – as performed by Kelly Corrigan – was your favorite?

Mother

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Wanted to but couldn't

Any additional comments?

Just great