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Fleabag meets Conversations With Friends in this brutally honest, observant, original novel about a woman going through a breakup... but really having more of a breakdown. "By delving into the complicated psyche of a woman we might call “very online,” Grown Ups shows us there is hope to be found. Just maybe not in the place we’re always looking." - The New York Times Book ReviewJenny is unloved, unemployable and emotionally unfiltered. Her long-suffering friends seem sick of her and whilst her social media portrays her life as a bed of roses, it is more of a dying succulent. Could things get any worse? Her mother is on her doorstep with a suitcase, and Jenny is about to find out... Told in live-wire prose, texts, emails, script dialogue, and social media messages, Grown Ups is a neurotic dramedy of 21st-century manners for the digital age. It reckons with what it means to exist in a woman’s body: to sing and dance and work and mother and sparkle and equalize and not complain and be beautiful and love your imperfections and stay strong and show your vulnerability and bake and box... “[Jenny’s] voice is so immediately engaging - and her perspective so zanily acute... But this oddl

Who reads Adults?

Author

Emma Jane Unsworth

Publisher

The Borough Press;HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781982141936

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (1,474 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14