There Are No Grown-Ups

MUCH RAVED ABOUT BY CHRIS EVANS ON HIS BBC RADIO 2 BREAKFAST SHOW 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 everyone - except you - is a bona-fide adult? Do you wonder how real grown-ups get to be so mysteriously capable and wise? When she turns 40, Pamela Druckerman - author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller French Children Don''t Throw Food - wonders 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 . 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 about - finally - becoming yourself