THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘HILARIOUS’ Stylist‘DAZZLING’ Marian Keyes‘WITTY’ Guardian‘HEARTBREAKING’ Dolly Alderton‘INCREDIBLE’ Candice Carty-WilliamsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘HILARIOUS’ Stylist‘DAZZLING’ Marian Keyes‘WITTY’ Guardian‘HEARTBREAKING’ Dolly Alderton‘INCREDIBLE’ Candice Carty-WilliamsJenny 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 livesAnd 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‘Jaunty, witty, sexy and funny … [Unsworth’s] writing surprises, delights and moves. I will remember, for a long time, this novel’s lacerating wit and its melancholy sorrow’ GUARDIAN‘Adults is hilarious … that this novel is so relatable is what makes it such a page-turner. Heartwarming and heartbreaking’ STYLIST‘Unsworth dazzlingly skewers modern life … This deserves to be gleefully quoted’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Virtuoso … Unsworth sparkles… like the very best of her kind, she creates a world complex enough that in the echoes of our laughter are also relatability, wistfulness, even hope’ OBSERVER‘I LOVED it! Dazzling observations & snarky one-liners, with a heroine who is vulnerable, funny, intelligent & feels SO REAL I WISH I'd written it!’ MARIAN KEYES‘Adults is a sharp, funny novel about floundering in a social-media world where everyone else seems to be flying … [Unsworth] nails the anguish of losing a future and figuring yourself out. Adults is witty, clever and a bit frightening. Unsworth had me rooting for Jenny to like herself’ THE TIMES‘Confronting, heartbreaking and hilarious … I completely & utterly adored it’ DOLLY ALDERTON‘Brilliant’ WOMAN’S HOUR BBC RADIO 4‘As empathetic as it is energising … Superb’ DAILY MAIL‘Funny, arch & tender …. A must-read’ JESSIE BURTON‘Funny, sad and often very wise’ METRO‘Hilarious & heartbreaking’ RED‘Too funny, too clever, satisfyingly satirical & with just the right amount of Zodiac chat, ADULTS is incredible’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS‘Adults is a sharp, dark and frequently very funny story of mothers and daughters’i NEWS‘Unique, hilarious … I loved it’ HOLLY BOURNE‘As funny as it is scary . . . a very clever, and frequently sad, story of addiction hiding in plain sight: Instagram’ JUNO DAWSON‘Hilarious’ DAILY MAILThe Funny and Heartwarming Sunday Times Fiction Best SellerEmma Jane Unsworth is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her novel, Animals, was adapted into a film, for which Unsworth wrote the screenplay. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2019. She also writes for television and various magazines.The Funny and Heartwarming Sunday Times Fiction Best Seller• ADULTS the laugh-out-loud novel from the award-winning author of ANIMALS that will also make you re-think your life and how you’re living it• ANIMALS the movie is premiering all over the world and was a smash hit at Sundance• Emma has the wit of Nora Ephron and Dorothy Parker but the heart of Marian Keyes and Dolly Alderton.• Emma writes and reviews for the Guardian and is a regular on BBC Radio Saturday Review, BBC3 The Essay and has appeared on the Literary Friction and Book Slam podcasts• ADULTS is pitch perfect on trying to be an adult in your mid-thirties, about managing a 70-year-old gin-swilling, tarot-reading mother and will appeal to women ages 20-70, there’s so much of the uproarious female experience here• ADULTS is about love in all its forms, how to maintain friendships when everyone is busy, how to be a good daughter, and how to love your ex when they move on – but above all it’s about how to love yourselfCompetition: Everything I Know About Love;Queenie;Normal People;Such a Fun Age;Ghosts;I Feel Bad About My Neck;How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right?. by;Dolly Alderton;Marian Keyes;Nick Hornby;David Nicholls;Sally Rooney;Dawn O’Porter;Candice Carty Williams;Diana Evans;Helen Fielding;Kiley Reid;Pandora Sykes
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