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    Grown Ups
    Grown Ups
    Grown Ups
    Audiobook8 hours

    Grown Ups

    Written by Emma Jane Unsworth

    Narrated by Chloe Massey

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    About this audiobook

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
    “[E]ssential reading for our dismal times.” —The Wall Street Journal
    One of Bustle’s “Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020”
    Good Housekeeping’s “25 New Fall Books You Have to Read This Season”
    Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2020”

    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.

    Jenny McLaine’s life is falling apart. Her friendships are flagging. Her body has failed her. She’s just lost her column at The Foof because she isn’t the fierce voice new feminism needs. Her ex has gotten together with another woman. And worst of all: Jenny’s mother is about to move in. Having left home at eighteen to remake herself as a self-sufficient millennial, Jenny is now in her thirties and nothing is as she thought it would be. Least of all adulthood.

    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…

    But, despite our impossible expectations of women, Emma Jane Unsworth never lets Jenny off the hook. Jenny’s life is falling apart at her own hands and whether or not she has help from her mother or her friends, Jenny is the only one who will be able to pick up the pieces and learn how to, more or less, grow up. Or will she?

    Editor's Note

    “Fleabag” meets Sally Rooney…

    As soon as we heard Emma Jane Unsworth’s (“Animals”) new novel described as “Fleabag” meets “Conversations with Friends,” we were in. Following a breakup, job loss, and the prospect of her mother moving in with her, Jenny’s life has fallen apart. She’s the only one who can put herself back together, but will she rise to the occasion?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 18, 2020
    ISBN9781797108278
    Grown Ups
    Author

    Emma Jane Unsworth

    Emma Jane Unsworth has written two award-winning novels: Hungry, the Stars and Everything and Animals. She wrote the screenplay of Animals and the film, directed by Sophie Hyde and starring Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat, premiered at Sundance 2019 and was released in the UK later that year. She regularly writes essays for newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian Weekend. She also writes for television. 

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