Margo's Got Money Troubles

Margo's Got Money Troubles

By:

Rufi Thorpe

Spice Scale
Number of books
1 Published
KU
❌
Audiobook
✅
Series Status
Complete
Interconnected
N/A
Overall Rating
Coming Soon

'I read the first paragraph and was immediately hooked'
Jacqueline Wilson

'Enormously entertaining and lovable'
Nick Hornby, New York Times

'Nonjudgmental, original and very funny; the book is warm and generous too. I loved it'
India Knight, Sunday Times STYLE

** Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley is to adapt for A24 - a TV show starring Nicole Kidman and Elle & Dakota Fanning **

Margo Millet's got money troubles. As the child of a Hooter's waitress and an ex-Pro-Wrestler, she's always known she'd have to make it on her own. When she finds herself pregnant by her college professor - who is very keen not to be involved - she realizes she will need cash fast.

At twenty, alone with a baby, what Margo lacks in options she makes up for in ingenuity, and soon she has a plan: she'll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, producing content and writing storylines unlike anything else out there. Help arrives in the form of her live-action role-playing flatmate Suzie, and her father, Jinx - a recovering addict and veteran of the wrestling world, who has experience of making an audience fall in love.

Before she knows it, Margo is an online phenomenon. Could this be the answer to all of Margo's problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?

'An expansive, offbeat, gorgeous exploration of resilience, forgiveness and multi-generational parenthood'
Pandora Sykes

'A hilarious novel about making the most of what you've got'
Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here

Jamie’s review

Obsessed. I was hooked from the first paragraph. The level at which I was rooting for Margo and all the unhinged characters in her life 📣

I understand the buzz and I'm so excited for the Nicole Kidman movie adaptation!

The empathy (and maybe PTSD) I felt for Margo as she navigates young motherhood and a meager bank account. Just HOW.MANY.THINGS. are stacked against her… and how she remains hopeful, level-headed and hilarious. I love her.

The only thing that irked me was the constant switching from 3rd person POV to 1st person POV. I think it's mean to be chaotic like Margo's life, but it was distracting and I didn't like it.

Otherwise 5/5 stars. SO GOOD YOU GUYS.

Obsessed. I was hooked from the first paragraph. The level at which I was rooting for Margo and all the unhinged characters in her life 📣

I understand the buzz and I'm so excited for the Nicole Kidman movie adaptation!

The only thing that irked me was the constant switching from 3rd person POV to 1st person POV. I think it's mean to be chaotic like Margo's life, but it was distracting and I didn't like it.

Otherwise 5/5 stars. SO GOOD YOU GUYS.

Erica’s review

I can understand why people love this book - especially if you can truly relate to the single Mom aspect. Margo and her choices-out-of-spice and/or lack of emotional intelligence (yes….even being a 19 year old) didn't hit with me. I was also an idiot 19 year old but I was not making dumb ass choices like that so I had a hard time relating. BUT, I did love how much she loved her baby. That I CAN relate to as a Mom. It was a quick read and I did like the writing style but I just never really fell in love or connected with any of the characters and I wanted more of a HEA at the end. This was just a meh for me.