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    Cover the Butter
    Audiobook10 hours

    Cover the Butter

    Written by Carrie Kabak

    Narrated by Kate Reading

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Get ready to cheer for Kate Cadogan, a fortysomething woman who has spent her life trying to please her husband, her son, her mother, and her father without a moment's thought to her own needs. Until one day, when a series of events causes her to slip back in time…
    For the first time Kate sees her life clearly-her dreams of becoming a caterer; the delicate yet combustible relationship she shares with her mother; and the unflagging support of her two best friends.
    Kate finds the courage to make a break and, energized by her newfound freedom, she creates a life all her own.
    Buoyant and deeply moving, Cover the Butter proves that starting over has nothing to do with age and everything to do with spirit.
    "[Kabak's] way of encapsulating decades in a few swift strokes takes this tale well beyond the standard middle-age revenge formula." -Kirkus Reviews
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 7, 2005
    ISBN9781415923306
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    • 3/5
      Kate is a doormat - I totally sympathise - my relationship with my mother was not quite extreme in my teens but close and we have all compromised to please family instead of ourselves at some point. There were moments when I wanted to smack Kate but a lot of the time I laughed instead. Full of pathos and humour its an easy read.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of Kate, a doormat. Most of her life is spent under her mother's thumb in some way or another, and that need for approval from the one person in her life least willing to give it forces Kate into a slew of bad decisions throughout her life. That's not to say this book is all depressing, though sometimes it was a bit frustrating to see Kate putting up with such poor treatment. There are also parts that are touching, like Kate's eternally devoted grandparents, and parts that are hilarious, like her lovingly (and brutally) honest friends. Almost all the characters are so detailed I could hear them in my head. In all, it's a pretty good depiction of how a woman can let her life get so far off track - and, happily, how she can get it back on again.
    • 4/5
      This is Kate's story of her life with a controlling (insane?) mother and wimpy father from the '60s through the '90s. Parts of the book are fun, and the writing is good, but you wonder if Kate is ever going to get a clue and cut the apron strings. Chick lit with a bite.
    • 3/5
      I thought this book started out really good and then seemed to slide down to fair halfway through. Katie was an only child with a really mean mother and milquetoast father. Her husband is a real jerk and they have a son. It takes place in England and at the beginning I felt like that's where it was but then it all kind of slipped - the expressions and the writing - and it stopped being realistic in any way for me.