All Adults Here

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Pub Date 16 Jul 2020 | Archive Date 30 Apr 2021

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DISCOVER THE WRY AND AMUSING STORY ABOUT SURVIVING IN A MODERN FAMILY FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Literary sunshine' New York Times
'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls
'The world will love it' Ann Patchett
'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout
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Coming of age isn't just for kids.

Astrid Strick has always tried to do her best for her three children. Now, they're finally grown up - but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

Elliott doesn't have any idea who he really is, or how to communicate with his own sons. Porter is, at last, pregnant - but feels incapable of rising to the challenge. Nicky has fled to distant New Mexico, where he's living the bohemian dream.

And Astrid herself is up to things that would make her children's hair curl.

Until now, the family have managed to hide their true selves from each other. But when Nicky's incorrigibly curious daughter Cecelia comes to stay, her arrival threatens to upturn everything . . .

Witty, astute, and irresistibly readable, All Adults Here is a novel about how to survive inside a modern family from New York Times bestselling author Emma Straub.
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Praise for Emma Straub:

'Funny, poignant and beautifully observed' Jojo Moyes

'Witty and big-hearted ... leaves you smiling for days' Maria Semple

'Intimate, epic, beautifully observed' Jennifer Egan

'Smart, compelling ... irresistible' Liane Moriarty

'Has all the pleasures of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits . . . with a Lorrie Moore-like sense of the absurdities of contemporary life' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

DISCOVER THE WRY AND AMUSING STORY ABOUT SURVIVING IN A MODERN FAMILY FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Literary sunshine' New York Times
'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author...


Advance Praise

'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls

'Hugely talented' BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

'The world will love it' Ann Patchett

'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout

'A joy to read' Sarah Haywood

'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls

'Hugely talented' BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

'The world will love it' Ann Patchett

'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout

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ISBN 9780718181499
PRICE £14.99 (GBP)
PAGES 352

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This is exactly my sort of book. A sharp, perceptive and warm exploration of family dynamics and human behaviour, with lots of relatable and deftly-drawn characters that a reader can really get behind. I thoroughly enjoyed reading.

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All Adults Here, a family sagà to keep you captured to the pages from start to finish. The mother Astrid lost here husband a few years back leaving here to bring up her children alone. Two boys Elliot & Nicky plus Porter who is now pregnant and going it alone. They are all adults traveling along the road as, well adults warts and all.
Cecelia is Nicky's daughter who had been sent to live with his Mum after a incident with her best friend (now not her best friend). On the day Cecilia arrives Astrid witnesses Babara a lady she knows walk out in front of a bus and becomes history. This shakes her up and she makes some big decisions one being to tell her offspring that her & Birdie are actually lovers not just friends. That's enough about the plot you can read and enjoy the rest yourself and it is worth the time.
So yes I enjoyed this book it's not my normal sort of read but I'm glad it came my way the characters are all great in very different ways some cringingly so others well most you will probably love I did. This is normal family life in there way that is with several story lines that each will draw you in but without overcrowding you showing what a fantastic writer Emma is.
I feel this novel is more than worthy of five stars and feel you may have a hard job not to feel the same that's my view anyway.

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Super read. There’s nothing like family - the bigger the better - and the dynamics that go on within. There was so much going on within this family unit it just makes for an excellent read. It was almost like peering through a mirror and just watching from the outside. The way they all interacted and shared their lives and history together. Nothing appeared to truly phase them.
I loved how the author brought in matters that affect couples today, identity challenges and other issues which are part of life as we know it. It really is a great read and I’d highly recommend it.

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This book is a treat. If you enjoy Anne Tyler, you will enjoy Emma Straub.
Every parent who has ever doubted how well they have parented will connect.
Astrid's not-friend is killed crossing the road, setting in motion Astrid's self-doubt about friendship, being a wife and a mother.
Her three adult children have their own crises: jobs, marriages, relationships and children, from embryo to teenagers.
Straub takes us on a delicious and honest journey into their lives. It might seem as if "nothing happens" but this is a story that makes us revisit our own life and smile and feel regretful and, just possibly, make more sense of it.
Loved it.

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What a fabulous read - entertaining in the extreme!

Astrid Strick is a widow with three adult children; each of them has their own life to lead  but, to her, they will always be her kids and she worries about each of them. She tries to be involved in their lives, but the upside of them not being involved in hers means she has secrets they know nothing about. Of course, she's not the only one hiding something and the year that her granddaughter Cecilia comes to live with her is the catalyst for so many revelations . . .

This is a novel which just pulls the reader in; I had no sooner opened it when I found myself very comfortable with the setting, the characters and the wonderful dialogue. This is an ordinary family in an ordinary town about which author has written an extraordinary story. Astrid, like all of us with children, doesn't think she's done a good job as a mother - every reader can make up their own mind on that one as they work through the book. I loved everything about All Adults Here - it made me smile, laugh and, yes, wipe away a tear or two. A beautifully crafted tale by an author who must be a people watcher as her observations are so succinct.  I have no hesitation in highly recommending this novel and I'm very happy to give it five sparkling stars!

My thanks to the publisher for my copy via NetGalley; this is - as always - my honest, original and unbiased review.

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