Adult Onset
Author(s): Ann-Marie Macdonald
'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 Room Mary Rose McKinnon has two children with her partner Hilary and a fractured relationship with her mother Dolly; she also has issues with anger management and lives in fear of hurting the children, these feelings seem somehow rooted in a part of her childhood she has trouble remembering. Is Dolly - the kind of big personality who makes all Mary Rose's friends, and even waiters in coffee shops, exclaim 'I love your Mum!' - really harbouring a dark secret about what caused Mary Rose's childhood injuries, and is Mary Rose doomed to follow the same path with her own children? ADULT ONSET is a heartbreaking, hilarious, hugely satisfying novel about family ties and the joy and agony of parenthood. Ann-Marie MacDonald gets under the reader's skin and gives voice to the feelings we have all experienced but may never have examined.
General Information
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- : Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- : Sceptre
- : 01 March 2015
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2015
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Ann-Marie Macdonald
- : Paperback
- : 315
- : en
- : 400
More About The Product
Heartbreaking new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a bestselling, award-winning novelist, playwright, actor and broadcaster. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their 2 children.