Margo's Got Money Troubles
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Elle Fanning
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Rufi Thorpe
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'Enormously entertaining and lovable'
Nick Hornby, New York Times
'Nonjudgmental, original and very funny; the book is warm and generous too. I loved it'
India Knight, Sunday Times STYLE
** Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley is to adapt for A24 - a TV show starring Nicole Kidman and Elle & Dakota Fanning **
Margo Millet's got money troubles. As the child of a Hooter's waitress and an ex-Pro-Wrestler, she's always known she'd have to make it on her own. When she finds herself pregnant by her college professor - who is very keen not to be involved - she realizes she will need cash fast.
At twenty, alone with a baby, what Margo lacks in options she makes up for in ingenuity, and soon she has a plan: she'll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, producing content and writing storylines unlike anything else out there. Help arrives in the form of her live-action role-playing flatmate Suzie, and her father, Jinx - a recovering addict and veteran of the wrestling world, who has experience of making an audience fall in love.
Before she knows it, Margo is an online phenomenon. Could this be the answer to all of Margo's problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
'An expansive, offbeat, gorgeous exploration of resilience, forgiveness and multi-generational parenthood'
Pandora Sykes
'A hilarious novel about making the most of what you've got.'
Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here
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- Chris N.
- 13-11-24
Works on different levels...
....Crazy funny in places but can also be read as a more serious story of a hilarious and intelligent woman who is let down, both by her own family and by the surrounding community.
Initially naive, she is able to survive and eventually thrive through her own ingenuity, while at the same time retaining a great sense of fun and a healthy self effacement.
Some well-articulated moral insight, social commentary and literary critical theory thrown in as well.
Loved it!
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- Susie Gunning
- 19-08-24
entertaining
I liked the main character in the story margo. a young woman who was left to bring up a baby on her own who adopts her own family fir support. written with humour and a good perspective of bringing up a baby.
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- Mrs Susan Pittam
- 31-08-24
Wonderful
A most unusual and beautiful book - sensitive, insightful, seriously funny and weird!.
The website dictates that I use three more words but I haven’t anymore to say
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- Margot-Hi-5
- 20-06-24
Awesome in every way
Loved this book! Such new ideas and aspects from which to view life. I totally embraced Margo & the cast of oddball characters. I know I’ll listen to this more than once - it rocks!
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- mirf
- 20-07-24
Wow. Totally unique & voicy.
Margo's Got Money Troubles is unlike anything I've ever read. Thorpe had created the most real, candid, lovable character in Margo, and Elle Fanning did a stunning job of bringing her to life - she genuinely feels real and so, so disarmingly, charmingly honest. What a totally fresh, unexpected, compelling story. I was rooting for Margo and Jinx and Bodhi all the way to the last beat. Some really beautiful philosophy and life wisdom subtly woven in too. Bravo, Rufi Thorpe. The only thing remotely comparable that comes to mind is Bridget Jones - yet this is squarely different and its very own, perfectly formed baby.
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- Julia graham
- 07-08-24
Great story
Through the eyes of the lead girl, this was a great story, about family, finding love and trying to make ends meet when you’re a single young mum. Margo has a great brain and comes up with the best ideas to sole her problems. Then things go wrong. I really enjoyed it
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- Jo Danan
- 07-09-24
Just the best
I have a million things I could write to recommend you read this. But there’s too many. Fresh, total absorption and brilliant.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-07-24
Excellent
Loved this book …. Felt like I really got to know Margot …. Hoping there will be a follow up xxx
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-09-24
easy read
Easy to read, although a little strange at times. Ending was a little abrupt. Good for the beach .
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-06-24
Enjoyed this a surprising amount!
Well written, funny, sad, enjoyable… I really like how Margot was written, she was realistic and likeable.
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