Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden

 

What a breezy read! I just sailed through this one!

Debbie Mullen lives with her husband Connor Mullen and their two daughters in England some place. She has a job of an agony aunt in the local newspaper and writes for a column called Dear Debbie. Many women write in to her column and she gives advice to the best of her knowledge and ability. 

But one day, because of some advice, which did not stick to protocol, led to Debbie losing her job. On the other had, Connor has been in talks with his boss to make him partner to the company. Unfortunately, that does not go down well too and he was currently on notice period. With both jobs gone, and no one divulging this bitter truth to the other, Connor and Debbie are stuck in a painful silence, doing the best to hold fort. 

Parallely, Debbie's daughters are going through some issue or the other. The younger one, who was the star of her soccer team, was kicked out for being overweight. Debbie is aghast when she gets to know this information from the Coach. This had to be set right soon. Then there was her older daughter who was being threatened by her sleazy boyfriend who needed to be dealt with too. Debbie was not going to sit quietly seeing these atrocities around her. She was going to deal with each of them in the best way possible!

To know how Debbie deals with these problems looming over her family, you will have to read this book. The audiobook is well narrated by Julia Whelan, January LaVoy and Scott Brick. The voice was smooth, calculated and dripping with venom. I loved the change of voices for Debbie, Connor and other characters. I could not stop myself from listening to it non-stop!

PS: And I have those scissors that you see on the cover page of the book!