THERE ARE NO GROWN-UPS.
EVERYONE ELSE IS WINGING IT TOO.
You know you're a grown-up when.
·You become impatient while scrolling down to your year of birth.
· You’ve lost and gained the same 10lbs so many times you now regard it as an old friend.
· Your parents have stopped trying to change you.
· You don't want to be with the cool people anymore; you want to be with your people.
· You know that 'Soul mate' isn't a pre-existing condition.
It's earned over time.
Does it ever feel like everyoneexcept youis a bona-fide adult? Do you wonder how real grown-ups get to be so mysteriously capable and wise? When she turns 40, Pamela Druckermanauthor of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller French Children Don't Throw Foodwonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face.
Waiters start calling her ‘Madame’, and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would sleep with her, but only if doing so required no effort whatsoever.
What are the modern forties, and what do we know once we reach them? What makes someone a ‘grown-up’ anyway? And why didn't anyone warn us that we'd get cellulite on our arms? There Are No Grown-Ups is a midlife coming-of-age story, a hilarious quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants.
It's a book for readers of all ages aboutfinallybecoming yourself.
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