Grace Adams is...the latest in a series of brilliant, beautiful and privileged protagonists...undone by the challenges of modern womanhood ... Littlewood taps effectively into the fear and confusion of parenting teens ... I may be proving the author’s point by noting that her central character can be hard to root for.
Certainly, Amazing Grace Adams has some lovely moments ... Where the novel falters is in its narrative spine: Grace’s increasingly frenzied march across London, which unfolds at a hectic pitch somewhere between a fever dream and a Twitter pile-on ... For most of the novel Littlewood appears to assume... that justification is superfluous and, because Grace is a woman, whatever she does, however irrational or disproportionate, other women will instinctively cheer her on.
