Mad Mabel
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My name is Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick and I am eighty-one years old. I want it on the record that I don’t look eighty-one. Not because I’m particularly attractive or youthful-looking – on the contrary, I’ve seen hairless mole rats more attractive – but because if storybooks are anything to go by (and I, for one, believe they are), eighty-one-year-olds are frail, birdlike creatures with silver hair who call people ‘dear’ and go inside the bank to speak to an ‘actual person’ rather than use the much more convenient ATM. At six feet tall with broad shoulders and a sturdy backbone, no one would ever accuse me of being birdlike – unless the bird in question was an ostrich. My hair is reddish-grey, and I call people ‘dipshit’ with far more regularity than ‘dear’. Most importantly, I adore the ATM. Who wouldn’t? I’m eighty-one years old, and I don’t want to spend the precious time I have left in a stuffy, air-conditioned room talking to a power-tripping branch manager called Barry through plexiglass.
I digress.
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"𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕."
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C'est drôle, et à la fois pas du tout, c'est léger et tragique, et on termine ce livre avec le sourire, même si ce sourire est un peu triste.
Mabel (ou Elsie) est une très bonne héroïne, une mamie ronchon qui s'ouvre peu à peu à son entourage et réalise que finalement, ses voisins ne sont pas si mal. Ça rappelle un peu 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑇𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑜 (un peu, j'ai dit). Et son histoire n'est malheureusement que trop réaliste...
Un plaisir à lire !
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Mad Mabel
- USA : 2025-10-01 (English)
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Meet Mad Mabel.
Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years old. She's lived on her idyllic street, Kenny Lane, for sixty years--longer than anyone else. Aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else's business, few would suspect that Elsie has a past that she has worked exceedingly hard at concealing. Because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old ladies. And Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick, once a little girl and now an old lady, has a strange history of people in her life coming to a foul end.
When a new little girl (talkative, curious, nosy) moves into the neighborhood and stops at nothing to befriend Elsie, her carefully-constructed life threatens to come crashing down as the secrets in Elsie's past start coming to light. Who was "Mad Mabel" fifty years ago? Who is Elsie Fitzpatrick today? And if the past has a habit of repeating itself, who has the most to lose?
Told with Sally Hepworth's twists, humor, charm, and heart, MAD MABEL is novel that weaves past and present together--through the power of justice and redemption, and all the way to its stunning conclusion.
(source : goodreads)
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