Adults: ‘A sharp, funny tale of trying to be yourself in the age of Instagram’ (The Times)

Fleabag meets Conversations With Friends in this brutally honest, observant, original novel about a woman going through a breakup... but really having more of a breakdown. "By delving into the complicated psyche of a woman we might call “very online,” Grown Ups shows us there is hope to be found. Just maybe not in the place we’re always looking." - The New York Times Book ReviewJenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unfiltered. Her long-suffering friends seem sick of her and whilst her social media portrays her life as a bed of roses, it is more of a dying succulent. Could things get any worse? Her mother is on her doorstep with a suitcase, and Jenny is about to find out... Told in live-wire prose, texts, emails, script dialogue, and social media messages, Grown Ups is a neurotic dramedy of 21st-century manners for the digital age. It reckons with what it means to exist in a woman’s body: to sing and dance and work and mother and sparkle and equalize and not complain and be beautiful and love your imperfections and stay strong and show your vulnerability and bake and box... “[Jenny’s] voice is so immediately engaging - and her perspective so zanily acute... But this oddly charming narrative is far more than a feast of one-liners...In Grown Ups, self-inflating targets such as mindfulness, artiness and new-manliness are sparingly deployed and exquisitely punctured while the overall mood is subtly textured and the central plot almost quaintly plain... [E]ssential reading for our dismal times.” - The Wall Street JournalAdults is a "hilarious and heartbreaking" (Red magazine) novel about living online and trying to find yourself in real life; a hymn to the power of female friendship and an essential read for you and every woman you know. US edition published as 'Grown Ups'. `A DAZZLING book' Marian Keyes `HEARTBREAKING and HILARIOUS ... I completely and utterly adored it' Dolly Alderton `Funny, arch and tender ... A MUST-READ' Jessie Burton Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool magazine and has hilarious friends just a message away. But the thing is: * She can't actually afford her house since her criminally sexy ex-boyfriend Art left, * her best friend Kelly is clearly trying to break up with her, * she's so frazzled trying to keep up with everything you can practically hear her nerves jangling, * she spends all day online-stalking women with beautiful lives as her career goes down the drain. And now her mother has appeared on her doorstep, unbidden, to save the day... Is Jenny ready to grow up and save herself this time? Deliciously candid and gloriously heartfelt, ADULTS is the story of one woman learning how to fall back in love with her life. It will remind you that when the world throws you a curve ball (or nine), it may take friendship, gin & tonics or even your mother to bring you back.. 'DAZZLING' Marian Keyes 'HILARIOUS' Dolly Alderton 'TENDER' Jessie Burton 'MAGNIFICENT' Daisy Buchanan 'INCREDIBLE' Candice Carty Williams 'MOVING' Laura Jane Williams 'BRILLIANT' Nikesh Shukla 'I LOVED IT' Sam Baker 'PAINFULLY TRUE' Kate Davies Jenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unfiltered. Her long-suffering friends seem sick of her and whilst her social media portrays her life as a bed of roses, it is more of a dying succulent. Adults is what you want it to be. A misadventure of maturity, a satire on our age of self-promotion, a tender look at the impossibility of womanhood, a love story, a riot. And Emma Jane Unsworth is the only voice to hear it from. Adults is excruciating, a gut punch of hilarity and a book laden with truth that you will read again and again. 400 pages Publisher: The Borough Press (30 Jan. 2020) Language: English ISBN-10: 0008334595 ISBN-13: 978-0008334598 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'AN AMAZING WRITER' Margot Robbie* 'HILARIOUS' Stylist 'DAZZLING' Marian Keyes 'WITTY' Guardian 'HEARTBREAKING' Dolly Alderton 'INCREDIBLE' Candice Carty-Williams Jenny McLaine: can't afford her mortgage since her ex moved out is about to get dumped by her best friend spends all day online-stalking women with picture-perfect lives And now her mother has appeared on her doorstep, unbidden, to save the day... Is Jenny ready to grow up and rescue herself this time? UK's #6 bestselling hardback, The Sunday Times chart 9th February 2020 *Margot Robbie talking about Adults, as quoted in CHANEL's short film segment, 'In the library with Margot Robbie' "Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool magazine and has hilarious friends just a message away. But the thing is: She can't actually afford her house since her criminally sexy ex-boyfriend Art left. Her best friend Kelly is clearly trying to break up with her. She's so frazzled trying to keep up with everything you can practically hear her nerves jangling. She spends all day online-stalking women with beautiful lives as her career goes down the drain. And now her mother has appeared on her doorstep, unbidden, to save the day... Is Jenny ready to grow up and save herself this time?"--Provided by publisher