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The Adults
A General Fiction Novel by Caroline Hulse
Subgenres:
- Domestic Drama,
- Family Life,
- Humorous Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Blended family chaos with exes and new partners at holiday gatherings
- Awkward forced fun in quirky British holiday parks
- Imaginary friends who crash adult drama
From Little Stack
Although they’ve split up, Claire and Matt still want their seven-year-old daughter, Scarlett, to have a merry Christmas. So they come together at Happy Forest holiday park, along with their new significant others, Patrick and Alex. Stir together the personality quirks of each of the four adults, young Scarlett’s imaginary rabbit friend, and too many holiday cocktails, and you have a recipe for a shocking and hilarious story of one blended family’s missteps and mishaps.
If you’re like me and enjoy jaded family films like The Ref over the holidays, you’ll savor this sweet and salty concoction.
Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide that it would be best for their daughter, Scarlett, to have a "normal" family Christmas. They can't agree on whose idea it was to go to the Happy Forest holiday park, or who said they should bring their new partners. But someone did—and it's too late to pull the plug.
Claire brings her new boyfriend, Patrick (never Pat), a seemingly sensible, eligible from a distance Ironman in Waiting. Matt brings the new love of his life, Alex, funny, smart, and extremely patient. Scarlett, who is seven, brings her imaginary friend Posey. He's a giant rabbit.
Together the five (or six?) of them grit their teeth over Forced Fun Activities, drink a little too much after Scarlett's bedtime, overshare classified secrets about their pasts . . . and before you know it, their holiday is a powder keg that ends where this novel begins—with a tearful, frightened call to the police.
What happened? They said they'd all be adults about this. . . .
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