The Opposite of Maybe

By: Maddie Dawson

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

A heartfelt and exceptionally human novel about the best mistakes a person can make.

Jonathan and Rosie have been together so long they finish each other's sentences - so when he (finally) proposes and asks her to move across the country with him, everyone is happily surprised. But when things suddenly unravel, Rosie sends Jonathan packing and moves back home with Soapie, the irascible, opinionated grandmother who raised her.

Now she has to figure out how to fire Soapie's very unsuitable caregiver, a gardener named Tony who lets her drink martinis, smoke, and cheat at Scrabble. It's meant to be a temporary break, of course - until Rosie realizes she's accidentally pregnant at 44, completely unequipped for motherhood, and, worse, may be falling in love with Tony, whose life is even more muddled than hers.

When Soapie reveals a long-hidden secret, Rosie wonders if she has to let go of her fears and trust that the big-hearted, messy life that awaits her just may be the one she was meant to live.

©2014 Maddie Dawson (P)2015 Ideal Audiobooks

just do something

Funny, exasperating ( if this were my "boyfriend he would have been gone long ago).
Do as your Grandma says " live life to the fullest. " It all goes by so quickly. Do something that makes you happy!

Emotionally mixed

There are a lot of good things about the story in this book. What I find difficult was the heroine was so negative about everything. She eventually sorts herself out but I found it difficult to listen to her agonizing and always searching for and
finding the cloud behind every silver lining. I gave up listening about 2/3 through and went to the end to see what happened. And the ending was the best part.

Not bad; had me coming back.

I did like this book better than I thought I would. I enjoyed the typical scenarios of life as it is in the current world. Nice array of characters Nice to hear an account of a forty some year old unexpectedly pregnant with her first child and trying to figure it out in her newly changing world.

Loved the characters!

I found this book delightful! I would love to be friends with Tony and Rosie is perfect for him.

Life and All It Brings

Great story about life and all its complications. Maddie Dawson tells a tale that most all can relate to at some point in our lives, loved this story! Narration was on point and very personal.