Adult Onset, 9781473610156
Paperback
Stay-at-home mom faces domestic dread, childhood trauma resurfaces.

Adult Onset

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    9 November 2015

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Summary

The Dents in the Refrigerator: A Mother’s Descent

Mary Rose MacKinnon has embraced stay-at-home motherhood, supporting her partner’s career ambitions. Amidst the joys and chaos of childcare and the demands of her aging parents, a disquieting unease begins to creep in. Are others noticing the dents marring the expensive refrigerator? How did scissors end up within reach of her toddler?

When a resurgence of a childhood illness forces Mary Rose to confront her past, her world t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473610156
ISBN-10:147361015X
Author:Ann-Marie MacDonald
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Sceptre
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:9 November 2015
Weight:280g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 30mm
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Critics Review

One of the finest novels I’ve read in a long, long time.

Beautifully rendered… frank and acidly funny… It’s a large-hearted, resonant novel, filled with an interiority that opens out - a generous work. - Guardian

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

Definitely recommended. - Daily Mail

Sensitive and unmistakeably heartfelt. - Sunday Times

A complex, troubling novel that cuts with surgical precision into the sinew and muscle of family life. - Sarah Waters, author of The Paying Guests

Remarkable…an engrossing, disturbing and layered tale. - Chicago Tribune

She has again delivered a masterpiece. - The Globe and Mail

A lively, moving, and often funny story that has the potential to help usher in a new era of honest literary depictions of families in all their permutations. - The Walrus

About The Author

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a bestselling, award-winning novelist, playwright, actor and broadcaster. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their two children.

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