Adult Onset
$26.23
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2015
Summary
Mary Rose MacKinnon has agreed to be a stay-at-home mother while her partner’s career takes centre stage. As she balances childcare with the relentless needs of her own ageing parents, into the hilarities of full-on domesticity seeps a feeling of dread. Do others notice the dents in the expensive refrigerator? How did those scissors wind up in her toddler’s hands?
When a flare-up of a forgotten childhood illness compels her to rethink her own upbringing, Mary Rose’s world threate…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473610156 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147361015X |
| Author: | Ann-Marie MacDonald |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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One of the finest novels I’ve read in a long, long time.
Beautifully rendered… frank and acidly funny… It’s a large-hearted, resonant novel, filled with an interiority that opens out - a generous work. - Guardian
Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day. - Emma Donoghue, author of RoomDefinitely recommended. - Daily MailSensitive and unmistakeably heartfelt. - Sunday TimesA complex, troubling novel that cuts with surgical precision into the sinew and muscle of family life. - Sarah Waters, author of The Paying GuestsRemarkable…an engrossing, disturbing and layered tale. - Chicago TribuneShe has again delivered a masterpiece. - The Globe and MailA lively, moving, and often funny story that has the potential to help usher in a new era of honest literary depictions of families in all their permutations. - The WalrusAbout The Author
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a bestselling, award-winning novelist, playwright, actor and broadcaster. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their two children.
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