Get a Life, Chloe Brown

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Get a Life, Chloe Brown
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Author Talia Hibbert
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Brown Sisters
Genre Fiction, Romance
Publisher Avon Romance
Publication date
2019
ISBN 9780062941206
Followed byTake a Hint, Dani Brown 

Get a Life, Chloe Brown is a 2019 romance novel written by Talia Hibbert and published by Avon Romance. It is Hibbert's first traditionally published book from and is the first book of a trilogy following the Brown sisters. [1] [2] [3] The novel was followed by Take A Hint, Dani Brown in 2020 and Act Your Age, Eve Brown in 2021.

Contents

The audiobook of Get a Life, Chloe Brown was narrated by Adjoa Andoh and published by HarperAudio. [4]

Background

Hibbert has identified Get a Life, Chloe Brown as an #OwnVoices work; [5] the main character lives with chronic pain, like Hibbert herself. [1] [6] For much of her life, Hibbert struggled with undiagnosed health issues, until it was diagnosed as fibromyalgia. [1] [7] [8] Hibbert's multiple issues with doctors influenced the topic of medical discrimination in her novel. [7]

The novel explores the strain that chronic pain can place on both familial and romantic relationships, [9] [8] as well as showing a person with chronic pain is deserving and capable of having a loving relationship. [10] The book explores methods of reasserting a sense of control within a life that was once ruled by illness. [11] [12]

Reception

Get a Life, Chloe Brown was featured on the Today show and reached the best seller lists of both USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. [13] [14] [15] It reached #77 on the USA Today Bestseller list. [15]

Get a Life, Chloe Brown has been reviewed in The Washington Post. [16] and twice on NPR. [17] [18] Roxane Gay gave the novel a 4 star review on Goodreads, calling it a "Charming romance novel involving a woman with chronic pain and an attitude to mask it and her building’s super, a giant man with long flowing red hair and a tender, wounded heart. Well written, great banter, sexy vibes." [19] Jaime Green's review for The New York Times called Hibbert a "brilliant writer." [20]

The novel received the Ripped Bodice Awards for Excellence in Romance Fiction in 2019. [21] [22] [23]

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