Exposing the unvarnished truth behind the confident and collected image that we sell to others, Adults is a fearless and funny dissection of the social media age.
Jenny 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.
Adults is what you want it to be. A misadventure of maturity, a satire on our age of self-promotion, a tender look at the impossibility of womanhood, a love story, a riot. And Emma Jane Unsworth is the only voice to hear it from. Adults is excruciating, a gut punch of hilarity and a book laden with truth that you will read again and again.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008334635
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 320 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
‘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
I don’t usually start my review with saying this is good, but it is,, totally utterly heartbreakingly good.
Jenny is thirty something, just broken up with her long term boyfriend and completely obsessed with social...
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What an extremely hilarious, incredibly moving read. Jenny is addicted to instagram to the point she becomes obsessed about who is following her, her relationship has fallen apart now shes ignoring her best friend.... More
Jenny is a sort of millennial Bridget Jones, although perhaps a bit sillier (to be fair, I can’t really remember how silly Bridget Jones was). She made me laugh, but mostly shake my head and wonder whether anyone... More
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