'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 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.
Autorentext
Autorentext
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Titel
Adult Onset
Autor
EAN
9781473610125
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
30.09.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Features
Unterstützte Lesegerätegruppen: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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