The Funny and Heartwarming Sunday Times Fiction Best Seller
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘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?
“'I LOVED it! Dazzling observations and snarky one-liners, with a heroine who is vulnerable, funny, intelligent and feels SO REAL. I WISH I'd written it!' MARIAN KEYES 'Confronting, heartbreaking and hilarious ... I completely and utterly adored it' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Hilarious and heartbreaking' Red 'Funny, arch and tender .... A must-read' JESSIE BURTON 'Too funny, too clever, satisfyingly satirical and with just the right amount of Zodiac chat, ADULTS is incredible' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'This book is everything. I loved it' SAM BAKER 'MAGNIFICENT' DAISY BUCHANAN 'Unique, hilarious ... Astute observations about the female upon female gaze, and how toxic this gets through the filters of social media. I loved it and will be recommending it to everyone I know' HOLLY BOURNE 'Emma's insight into the complexities of thirtysomething womanhood in a time of social media floored me. I've never felt so seen by a book. Generous, tender and moving - a must-read' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS 'A mix of laugh out loud prose, brilliant dialogue, dark characters bringing chaos and a running strand of what it is to ... be here now' NIKESH SHUKLA 'Hilarious ... I want to push it into the hands of every woman I love' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH 'Funny, moving and so painfully true' KATE DAVIES 'I adored ADULTS ... full of razor-sharp observational humour that at times feels wincingly close to home whilst having a tender humanity at it's heart' SARAH HAYWOOD 'As funny as it is scary . . . a very clever, and frequently sad, story of addiction hiding in plain sight: Instagram' JUNO DAWSON”
‘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 MAIL
Emma 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 SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER '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?
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