Grown Ups
Marie Aubert author Rosie Hedger translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:3rd Jun '21
Should be back in stock very soon
Ida is a forty-year-old architect, single and struggling with the feeling of panic as she realises her chances of motherhood are rapidly falling away from her. She's navigating Tinder and contemplating freezing her eggs - but tries to put a pause on these worries as she heads out to the family country cabin for her mother's 65th birthday. That is, until some supposedly wonderful news from her sister sets old tensions simmering, building to an almighty clash between Ida and her sister, her mother, and her entire family. Exhilarating, funny, and unexpectedly devastating, Grown Ups gets up close and personal with a dysfunctional modern family.
'Grown Ups is a beautiful, slim but powerful look at the complicated process ofdeciding whether to start a family, while navigating your existing family. Theportrayal of the sister relationship is one of the best and most resonant I've everread' - Nell Frizzell, author of THE PANIC YEARS
'GROWN UPS take a sharp, cool, and funny look at ageing, fertility, and family inall its forms. A perfect novel for a time when we're all wondering who we are andwhat comes next.' - Jean Hannah Edelstein, author of THIS REALLY ISN'T ABOUTYOU
'Sharp, funny, very poignant, and full of smart observations about family dynamics'- MIRANDA WARD, author of ADRIFT
'A quiet, almost thrillerish, family story that Aubert lightly and elegantly steerstowards disaster' - Johanna Frid, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
ISBN: 9781782276531
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
160 pages