'Clever and magical' - Women's Weekly 'Author Jaclyn is the sister of Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies) and has the same talent for great plots. This unusual novel tugs at the heartstrings.' - Good Housekeeping Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson's brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail from a mysterious guidebook, whose anonymous authors promised to make her life soar to heights beyond her wildest dreams. ...
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'Clever and magical' - Women's Weekly 'Author Jaclyn is the sister of Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies) and has the same talent for great plots. This unusual novel tugs at the heartstrings.' - Good Housekeeping Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson's brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail from a mysterious guidebook, whose anonymous authors promised to make her life soar to heights beyond her wildest dreams. These missives have remained a constant in Abi's life - a befuddling yet oddly comforting voice through her family's grief over her brother's disappearance, a move across continents, the devastating dissolution of her marriage, and the new beginning as a single mother and caf� owner in Sydney. Now, two decades after receiving those first pages, Abi is invited to learn 'the truth' about the book. It's an opportunity too intriguing to refuse - she believes its absurdity and her brother's disappearance must be connected. What follows is an entirely unexpected journey of discovery that will change Abi's life - and enchant readers. Gravity Is the Thing is a smart, unusual, wickedly funny novel - heart-warming and life-affirming.
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Ever since she was a teenager, Abigail has been receiving chapters of the mysterious "Guidebook" in the mail. Now she has a chance to find out the truth about it (or at least get a free weekend away, since the "Truth" is most likely just a sales pitch for an extortionate self-help course). When things turn out very different to how she expected, Abigail must decide whether to indulge a fantasy, or face the truth and let go of the past.
But perhaps the two can go hand in hand?
From page one, Gravity is the Thing had me literally laughing out loud. The tone of this book is so fantastically whimsical in a practical everyday sort of way, it's almost hard to describe. Abigail has a bit of a Miranda Hart thing going on, and I Iove the way her imagination works.The short snappy chapters were perfectly matched to the tone, and also highly effective at the whole "I'll just read one more" tactic.
This book is quick-witted, painfully honest, and miraculously heartfelt. I honestly don't know how Jaclyn Moriarty did it, because if I had read that last sentence before I picked up this book, I'm not sure I ever would have read it. Heartfelt and honest are not what I usually look for in a book, and I normally gag at the cheese and comfort of those sad but empowering real human novels that seem to always involve an unlikely romance and someone who has a terminal illness. Gravity is the Thing, however, seems to encompass everything good about those books without taking on any of the cheap emotive fluff. The raw pain and uncertainty of life shine through the often hilarious scenes of Abigail's life in a way that seems to relate to my own questions and fears.
I would absolutely recommend this book to a lot of people. Anyone who wants a break from heavily plotted novels to just have a good laugh at some quirky humour and enjoy a thoughtful, well-narrated story should definitely give this a go. For fans of quirky romances and stories like About Time, The Age of Adeline and The Dressmaker.
liccyh
Feb 22, 2020
Weird (and wonderful)
This is simply a really charming book. As some chapters are only a single paragraph long, it works well when you're on the go (as well as when you've got more time to read longer chapters too). We gradually piece together the life of Abigail over twenty years. She is a single parent and Happiness Café owner whose brother disappeared when he was fifteen and has never been found. Are there any clues in The Guidebook, a weird self-help book that has been mailed to Abigail over many years?
The story is not linear but wanders in unexpected directions, but it's worth joining the journey to get to know Abi and her young son Oscar. The tone is bittersweet and the characters are relatable. What's not to enjoy?
