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Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAN AMAZING WRITER' Margot Robbie*HILARIOUS' StylistDAZZLING' Marian KeyesWITTY' GuardianHEARTBREAKING' Dolly AldertonINCREDIBLE' Candice Carty-WilliamsJenny McLaine: can't afford her mortgage since her ex moved out is about to get dumped by her best friend spends all day online-stalking women with picture-perfect livesAnd now her mother has appeared on her doorstep, unbidden, to save the dayIs Jenny ready to grow up and rescue herself this time?UK's #6 bestselling hardback, The Sunday Times chart 9th February 2020*Margot Robbie talking about Adults, as quoted in CHANEL's short film segment, In the library with Margot Robbie'
Trade Review‘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
