Life After Coffee

Written by Virginia Franken

Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt

When globe-trotting coffee buyer Amy O’Hara, assures her husband—who stays at home to watch the kids—that it is He Who Has it Harder…she doesn’t really believe it. That is, until the day she gets laid off, her husband locks himself in the garage to write the Great American Screenplay, and she discovers she’s actually the world’s most incompetent mother.

Overnight, Amy’s world is no longer one of farmer negations and upscale coffee tastings. Instead she’s spending her days attempting to discover where exactly she went wrong with her two resentful children and trying to carve out a place within her local community of put-together neighborhood moms. However, as their family dynamic begins to change in both fun and frustrating ways, she’s starting to ask herself the big questions: Can her marriage survive this kind of role reversal? How do you clean puke out from in between the seams of a car seat? And what does she really amount to when the job she thought defined her is removed from the equation?

One thing is certain: whatever happens, she’s going to need a lot more caffeine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Sep 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781531835224

Virginia Franken

Virginia Franken was born and raised in the United Kingdom. She graduated from the University of Roehampton, in London, with a degree in dance and worked on cruise liners as a professional dancer before changing tracks to pursue a career in publishing. Franken currently lives in suburban Los Angeles with two kids, a dog, an overweight goldfish, and one bearded dude, in a house that’s just a little too small to fit everyone in comfortably. She gets most of her writing done when she should be sleeping. This is her first novel.

Reviews for Life After Coffee

[kimkimkim-7 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing in exchange for an honest review. There was very little I liked about this book. The writing kept switching from hip Californian to British conjunctions to invective, diatribe, and all over the place. The story was a poor excuse for ego, super ego, loss of ego and how could I possible be anything but a coffee buyer, screenwriter, poor mother, great mother even if we can't make the mortgage payment, our credit cards are maxed to the limit and on and on. The story was a testament to how many smarmy, insincere, hypocritical people making bad choices could be squeezed into 265 digital pages.