# Adult Onset

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- Book: [Adult Onset](https://www.bookquiver.com/ann-marie-macdonald/adult-onset) ([Adult Onset.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ann-marie-macdonald/adult-onset.md))
- Authors: [Ann-Marie Macdonald](https://www.bookquiver.com/ann-marie-macdonald)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7361-012-5
- Published: 2014-09-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'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 A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IN CANADA Mary Rose McKinnon has two children with her partner Hilary and a fractured relationship with her mother Dolly; she also has issues with anger management and lives in fear of hurting the children and these feelings seem somehow rooted in a part of her childhood she has trouble remembering. Is Dolly - the kind of big personality who makes all Mary Rose's friends, and even waiters in coffee shops, exclaim 'I love your Mum!' - really harbouring a dark secret about what caused Mary Rose's childhood injuries, and is Mary Rose doomed to follow the same path with her own children? ADULT ONSET is a heartbreaking, hilarious, hugely satisfying novel about family ties and the joy and agony of parenthood. Ann-Marie MacDonald gets under the reader's skin and gives voice to the feelings we have all experienced but may never have examined.