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Marie Aubert made her debut in 2016 with the short story collection Can I Come Home With You, which sold more than 10,000 copies in Norway. Grown Ups is her first novel, and won the Young People's Critics' Prize (Norway's equivalent to the Goncourt des lyceens) and was nominated for the Booksellers' Prize. Rights have already been sold in ten other countries.
'Grown Ups is a beautiful, slim but powerful look at the complicated process ofdeciding whether to start a family, while navigating your existing family. Theportrayal of the sister relationship is one of the best and most resonant I've everread' - Nell Frizzell, author of THE PANIC YEARS 'GROWN UPS take a sharp, cool, and funny look at ageing, fertility, and family inall its forms. A perfect novel for a time when we're all wondering who we are andwhat comes next.' - Jean Hannah Edelstein, author of THIS REALLY ISN'T ABOUTYOU 'Sharp, funny, very poignant, and full of smart observations about family dynamics'- MIRANDA WARD, author of ADRIFT 'A quiet, almost thrillerish, family story that Aubert lightly and elegantly steerstowards disaster' - Johanna Frid, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
