Adult Onset

''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.