Peg, Unhinged by Teri M Brown ~ a Review

by Susan Roberts

Peg is good at a lot of things. Selling beachfront homes. Raising two kids. Holding her life together with duct tape and dark humor. What she is not good at is menopause, divorce, or watching her soon-to-be ex flirt with women half her age, especially when one of them works in her office.

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April 2026; Atmosphere Press; 979-8901741788
audio, ebook, print (376 pages); women's fiction

Peg’s life is a total mess.  She is approaching middle age, her husband has left her, a pretty young girl is threatening to take away her title of best real estate agent and dating her ex, and to top it all off, she is in menopause and having hot flashes, anger issues, and a genuine dislike of the changes that are taking place in her body.  Even though the book is initially filled with negatives, I have to tell you that it was a fun read.  Peg’s conversations with herself and with God and the way she sometimes looks at life are hilarious.

I started this review with all of the negatives in Peg’s life but as she begins to realize that she is enough, that she shouldn’t believe everything her mind tells her, and that she is loved she realizes that she needs to be kinder to herself and that the changes that happen during middle age are not all negative – in fact some of them are real life changing positives.

I loved Peg as a main character.  This was really a coming-of-middle-age book – when she began to look at the positives in her life instead of the negatives – her attitude toward her friends and family, and most importantly toward herself, began to change, and she became a much happier and contented woman.  There are parts of this book that most women who are facing middle age can connect with – life is not always kind to us when we age.  What made this book such a great read was that Peg’s conversations with herself were often very funny, and there were several times that I laughed out loud at her thoughts and thought process.  I’d like to meet Peg in real life – I think we could be great friends.

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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west.  She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.

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