Ann-Marie MacDonald - Adult Onset

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Produktbeschreibung

@2@@20@'Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down @18@Adult Onset@19@ in a single day.' EMMA DONOGHUE, author of @18@ROOM@19@ @21@@3@@2@@20@'A complex, troubling novel that cuts with surgical precision into the sinew and muscle of family life.' - SARAH WATERS@21@@3@@2@Mary Rose MacKinnon has agreed to be a stay-at-home mother while her partner's career takes centre stage. As she balances childcare with the relentless needs of her own ageing parents, into the hilarities of full-on domesticity seeps a feeling of dread. Do others notice the dents in the expensive refrigerator? How did those scissors wind up in her toddler's hands?@3@@2@When a flare-up of a forgotten childhood illness compels her to rethink her own upbringing, Mary Rose's world threatens to unravel and the spectre of violence raises its head. @3@@2@With biting humour and unerring emotional accuracy, @18@Adult Onset@19@ explores the pleasures and pressures of family bonds, so powerful and yet so easily twisted and broken.@3@