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'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
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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 and 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.
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Beautifully rendered... frank and acidly funny... It's a large-hearted, resonant novel, filled with an interiority that opens out - a generous work. (Guardian)
Sensitive and unmistakeably heartfelt (Sunday Times)
Definitely recommended (Daily Mail)
A complex, troubling novel that cuts with surgical precision into the sinew and muscle of family life. (Sarah Waters, author of The Paying Guests)
Big, troubling and brave. (The New York Times)
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)
...explores the question of parental abuse and its origins with uncommon courage. (Now magazine, Canada)
She has again delivered a masterpiece. (Michelle Dean, The Globe and Mail)
A 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 Walrus)
. . . a novel impossible to put down once begun. . . . the novel is superb, a fine blending of fact and fiction, of remembered incident and forgotten history, a wonderfully written treatise on the power of the past to impinge on the present. (Nancy Schiefer, The London Free Press, Canada)
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Heartbreaking new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1473610133
- ISBN 13 9781473610132
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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