I enjoyed this book - an easy read with a good story. It was really humorous and sarcastic in places. The story was good although I didn't really warm to the characters. Recommended.

This was a tricky one. Some parts were funny but on the whole a bit of a mission to read. Some words were too unnecessarily difficult. The writer is obviously talented. It just wasn't for me.

This is a beauty of a book. Funny, sad, wise, it follows Maggie, young, newly separated from her husband, through the year after they agree to get divorced. The writing is whip-smart and occasionally laugh out loud funny, but it’s the insight into grief, love and friendship that makes this book really special. Loved it.

Maggie’s post-split breakdown is painfully emotional, cringeworthy, hilarious and brilliant. A love letter to friendship, reluctant but essential navel-gazing self analysis and finding joy in the small things, every line dazzles with wit, relatability and uncomfortable truths. I loved it.

MIxed feelings about this one. I thought the voice was fantastic, and rung utterly true and the author is clearly immersed in the world she's writing about. It was a little unfocussed for me though.

Heisey's premise is absolutely to my liking, whilst Maggie felt definitely relatable, however the novel itself seemed a bit repetitive.

I found this novel a real slog, and ended up only getting through about 20% before giving up. There’s just so little movement, I don’t want to sit in my house reading about someone sitting in their house. Funny, yes in places, but boring too.

Maggie, newly parted from her husband is doing really good actually. But is she? Her friends and family think she is fine but actually she is falling apart while keeping a stiff upper lip. Join Maggie and her friends as she crawls through the devastation of divorce. A funny and sad look at divorce.

This is a good book. Easy and quick read, humorous and sarcastic in places. I enjoyed the story and concept of it although could not warm to the characters. It does however relate to today's society. Will look out for further books from this author.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an ARC in exchange for an honest opinion

I Found this book hard going. I did not relate or have any empathy for the main character. Maybe I am the wrong age group and dynamic for the book.

A really good premise and it started off very strong. But it is too long. It was interesting to read Maggie’s thoughts but it went on and on without any change or progress. So I think this book could have been shorter. However, I enjoyed the sense of humour in this book and it made me chuckle a lot. There are very sharp observations on life and society, and people in general too.

I am still undecided on Maggie - in parts she deserves some sympathy but in many ways she irritated me and came across as very self absorbed and I can imagine her irritating her husband in a similar way (eating in bed- the crumbs!).
That said the style of writing, splattering her innermost thoughts onto the page, is very engaging to the reader and pulls you quickly into her world and her psyche!
There are lots of very relatable moments throughout the book, some of which made me laugh out loud.
Overall a good read.

The E-Book could be improved and more user-friendly, such as links to the chapters, no large gaps between words some text written has been typed in red and a cover for the book would be better. It is very document-like instead of a book therefore a star is lost for this.

This was a simple, fun, easy and quick read. The perfect type of book for your holiday, beach, pool kind of read. This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and would read more of their work. The book cover is eye-catching and appealing and would spark my interest if in a bookshop. Thank you very much to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

Very observant with some laugh out loud moments.
As a woman in my mid fifties I felt that I was in the wrong demographic for this book. I was having to do a lot of googling as I didn’t know what a lot of it meant.
All in all I didn’t really enjoy it.

This book is actually really good. I loved how the book was narrated. Being able to talk about your marriage and it's transition to divorce in such a way, even going as far as mentioning the struggles she faced while getting over it, it's beautiful and strengthening. It's like a mini session for someone considering divorce.
The only setback, is that it's in PDF which made it a chore to read on the app

Really Good, Actually started off strongly and I was hoping for a modern-day Bridget Jones style novel about a woman (Maggie) whose marriage ended after 600 days but after the first third it became a real slog to get through.

Heisey is clearly a talented writer but this book came across as trying to be too clever, to be too in the moment and left the book with an almost insufferable narrator who at 29 was one of the most self-centred and unpleasant characters I have ever read.

I can see why this would appeal to people, just didn’t hit the spot with me. Probably I am the wrong generation but I found Maggie to be irritating, self obsessed and the book was too long. Funny in parts but just not my thing.

29 year-old Maggie is unexpectedly going through a divorce. She is a mess, lurching from one bad date and decision to another, alienating not just her ex but her friends in the process. Monica Heisey balances Maggie’s laugh-out-loud moments with dark realisations about her new found singledom. I would definitely recommend for fans of Schitt’s Creek, the show Heisey wrote for. There are definite parallels between the show and her book, with a sudden change in circumstances producing comedic situations and eventual realisations of what is truly important. The book is a feel-good, emotional rollercoaster.

We all know a Maggie. And if you don’t think you do, that’s because you are Maggie. I recognise many of my own worst traits in her; I have done some of the things she has done. I think all of my friends could tick all of Maggie’s bad habits & awful behaviours off between them, actually.

I really enjoyed the first and final thirds of this, but I feel like the middle could have had a lot of fat trimmed from it. On the whole though, I enjoyed thoroughly modern Maggie and her very relevant feelings.

Comedian and Schitt’s Creek screenwriter Monica Heisey’s debut covers a year in twenty-nine-year-old Maggie’s life after her husband takes her at her word, packs up his belongings and leaves, taking Janet the cat with him.

There’s no particular reason why Maggie suggested Jon might leave. Things had just fizzled out after a decade together, less than two of which were spent married. Once he’s gone, she goes to pieces, barely leaving the house, failing to turn up to work, obsessively scrolling, checking Jon’s social media profiles and at risk of annoying everyone who knows her but by the end of the novel redemption’s in sight.

I very nearly gave up this up after thirty or so pages of Maggie’s dive into self-absorption but her snarky narrative became curiously addictive. There are some very funny set-piece scenes as you’d expect from a comic screenwriter and I enjoyed the lists that punctuate Maggie’s narrative, which occasionally, made me laugh out loud. A year is a satisfying narrative arc to follow but although enjoyable enough Heisey's novel was too long for me.