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Paperback
Published: 28th May 2024
Hardback
Published: 10th September 2024
Paperback
Published: 8th July 2025
Irresponsible Adult
By (Author) Lucy Dillon
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton
10th September 2024
23rd May 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Family life fiction
Modern and Contemporary romance
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
823.92
Hardback
448
Width 162mm, Height 240mm, Spine 40mm
682g
'So good! Warm and funny, and I was rooting for Robyn from the very first page' MILLY JOHNSON
'Funny, perceptive and oh-so-relatable, Robyn's reluctant mission to clean up her world is full of laughs and also some heart-twisting surprises' ALEXANDRA POTTERDEFINITELY OLDER. NOT NECESSARILY WISER...Sisters Cleo and Robyn may be close in age but their attitudes to life could not be further apart. While Cleo's a fully-fledged adult with a family, a business and a signature scent, Robyn is still waiting for the instruction manual to Adult Life and success is keeping her houseplant alive. Skating by at her job as an estate agent, she's adept at avoiding housework, ignoring admin, and evading her mother's anxious questions about her love life. But then Robyn's fired in the most publicly humiliating way imaginable - and her chaos catches up with her. Although Cleo steps in to give Robyn a temporary job in her cleaning firm, it comes with very firm instructions: Robyn must BEHAVE RESPONSIBLY. And that includes meeting the high standards of Jim, her enigmatic supervisor. But when Robyn learns to navigate the catastrophic kitchens and judgemental dogs of total strangers she learns some unexpected truths about her own messy world. No one's life is spotless... Is it time - finally - for everyone to stop sweeping their secrets under the carpet'I honestly can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book this much - quite simply, it;s a joy from beginning to end' JANE COSTELLOYour favourite authors love Lucy Dillon . . .'Bittersweet, lovely and ultimately redemptive; the kind of book that makes you want to live your own life better' JOJO MOYES'So satisfying and clever and deeply moving' SOPHIE KINSELLA'This vibrant and uplifting novel has not only entertained me hugely, but made me change the way I look at life' KATIE FFORDE'I always find Lucy Dillon's books so overflowing with wit and wisdom' JENNY COLGAN'A beautifully written story about friendship, trust and love. I adored it' MILLY JOHNSONLucy Dillon was born in Cumbria. She won the Romantic Novelists' Association Novel of the Year Award in 2010 for Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts, and is the bestselling author of many acclaimed novels, most recently After the Rain. Lucy now divides her time between London and the Wye Valley where she enjoys walking in the Malvern Hills with her basset hounds, Violet and Bonham. You can follow her on Twitter @lucy_dillon or on Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/LucyDillonBooks.