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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
'A complex, troubling novel that cuts with surgical precision into the sinew and muscle of family life.' - SARAH WATERS
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 threatens to unravel and the spectre of violence raises its head.
With biting humour and unerring emotional accuracy, Adult Onset explores the pleasures and pressures of family bonds, so powerful and yet so easily twisted and broken.
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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 147361015X
- ISBN 13 9781473610156
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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