Grown Ups

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Ida is a forty-year-old architect, single and starting to panic. She's navigating Tinder and contemplating freezing her eggs, terrified that time has passed her by, silently, without her ever realising it. All she sees are other people's children, everywhere.

Now stuck in the idyllic Norwegian countryside for a gathering to mark her mother's sixty-fifth birthday, Ida is regressing. She's fighting with her younger sister, Marthe, and flirting with her sister's husband. But when some supposedly wonderful news from Marthe heightens tensions further, Ida is forced to mark out new milestones of her own.

Funny and unexpectedly devastating, Grown Ups is for anyone who has ever felt the fear of being overtaken and who feels almost - but not quite - grown up.

Reviews

'This is cringe-comedy at its finest, with Aubert's wry observations cranking things up well beyond eleven. Venomous. Bitchy. Brilliant' - Independent Ireland

'A thoroughly enjoyable family character study set in the most perfect Norwegian lakeside cabin: pure escapism! An endearing, moving novel about family, fertility and finding your feet' - Emma Gannon, author of 'Olive'

'Frequently heartbreaking, occasionally caustic, always searingly honest, Grown Ups is one of the best novels about singleness, siblings and approaching middle age I've ever read' - Jan Carson, author of 'The Fire Starters'

'Drily funny and emotionally gripping, it's the perfect summer read' - Vogue, The Absolute Best Summer Reads

'Grown Ups is a beautiful, slim but powerful look at the complicated process of deciding whether to start a family, while navigating your existing family. The portrayal of the sister relationship is one of the best and most resonant I've ever read' - Nell Frizzell, author of 'The Panic Years'

Author Bio

MARIE AUBERT made her debut in 2016 with the short story collection Can I Come Home With You, published to great acclaim in Norway. Grown Ups is her first novel; it won the Young People's Critics' Prize, was nominated for the Booksellers' Prize in Norway and is being published in 15 countries.