THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from Emma Straub, THE ONE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR A fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about adolescence and middle age, expectation and anticipation, and how we must cherish what we have while there is still time . . . 'Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY 'Her most emotionally resonant work yet' VOGUE 'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD 'I just finished and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty' JODI PICOULT 'A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love' i 'A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK' ________ If you could go back, would you do things differently? Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again. When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood . . . Alice soon discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and her sixteenth birthday, and realises she can keep on coming, whenever she chooses. But faced each time with different versions of her life, and the consequences of her decisions, it's on her not to lose sight of what she wants most . . . ________ With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child. 'An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO 'Clever, complex and really rather lovely' BEST 'Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS 'This time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have' ELLE 'Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty 'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time

THE IRRISISTABLE, UPLIFTING AND BIG-HEARTED STORY OF SURVIVING IN A MODERN FAMILY . . . 'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout 'Literary sunshine' New York Times 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls 'The world will love it' Ann Patchett The instant New York Times BESTSELLER ________ After Astrid Strick - a widowed, 68-year-old mother of three living in upstate New York - witnesses an accident, she resolves to live more honestly. Starting with the mistakes she made in raising her family. But are her kids, tangled in their own messy adult lives, really ready to be treated like grown ups? Charming, uplifting and well-observed, All Adults Here is the delightful story about the wonders and woes of modern family life. ________ Praise for All Adults Here: 'Perfectly pitched summer reading' Stylist 'Smartly observant, wryly witty, big-hearted . . . ' Sunday Times 'This beautifully written book delves deeply, perceptively and humorously into the contemporary human condition' Daily Mail 'A glorious mash-up of Elizabeth Strout and Gilmore Girls' Red 'If you're a fan of Anne Tyler's writing, you'll love this captivating well-observed family drama' Good Housekeeping

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"At once a delicious depiction of Hollywood's golden age and a sweet, fulfilling story about one woman's journey through fame, love, and loss."--"Boston"" Globe "
In 1920, Elsa Emerson is born to the owners of the Cherry County Playhouse in Door County, Wisconsin. Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, her acting becomes more than a child's game of pretend. While still in her teens, Elsa marries and flees to Los Angeles. There she is discovered by Hollywood mogul Irving Green, who refashions her as an exotic brunette screen siren and renames her Laura Lamont. But fame has its costs, and while Laura tries to balance career, family, and personal happiness, she realizes that Elsa Emerson might not be gone completely. Ambitious and richly imagined, "Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures "is as intimate--and as bigger-than-life--as the great films of the golden age of Hollywood.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY 'Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 'Her most emotionally resonant work yet' VOGUE 'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD 'I just finished and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty' JODI PICOULT 'A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love' i ________ About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her beloved father Leonard is dying. But after one too many drinks, she wakes up in her childhood home to find forty-year-old Leonard celebrating her sixteenth birthday. Now Alice gets to relive this one day in 1996, over and over. When the slightest change will impact the rest of her life. Can she fix her life and save her father? Or will her good intentions only cause harm to those she loves most? ________ With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child. 'A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK' 'An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO 'Clever, complex and really rather lovely' BEST 'Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS 'This time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have' ELLE 'Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty 'Deliciously warm and nostalgic' Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time 'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time

** 'It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible.' Liane Moriarty ** From the New York Times Bestselling author of The Vacationers, Emma Straub brings us a sharply observed tale of modern love . . . Twenty years later and they were supposed to be grown-ups... Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Summer in the city . . . College friends Elizabeth, Zoe and Andrew had a band, grew up, settled in New York and now they are still living round the corner from one another (and in each other's pockets). One hot summer as their kids come of age, making those first hesitant steps into adulthood, it's the parents who find that the lives they've so carefully stitched together begin slowly to come apart . . . 'Has all the pleasures of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits . . . with a Lorrie Moore-like sense of the absurdities of contemporary life' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'Really entertaining. The characters are complex and likeable. It's one of those stories that makes you realise that life really does run away from you' Guardian 'Straub's characters thrum off the page. The sort of witty and relatable summer title you'll devour with a contented smack of the lips' Independent 'Funny yet tart, warm yet incisive. I adored it' Red

A fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about how we must cherish what we have while there is still time Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have it figured out by now, and have spent more time with her father Leonard, who is very sick. When she wakes up outside their old apartment on her birthday, she's surprised to see a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for Alice, who is rapidly approaching adulthood . . . Alice soon realises she can keep coming back. Faced each time with different versions of her life, and the consequences of her decisions, Alice must not to lose sight of what she wants most- some time back with Leonard . . .

In "Other People We Married," Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In "Some People Must Really Fall in Love," an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward world of office politics while harboring feelings for a freshman student. Two sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they stumble to build a new relationship in "A Map of Modern Palm Springs." In "Puttanesca," two widows move tentatively forward, still surrounded by ghosts and disappointments from the past. These twelve stories, filled with sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language, announce the arrival of a major new talent.

The New York Times bestseller 'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout 'Literary sunshine' New York Times 'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls 'Hugely talented' BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 'The world will love it' Ann Patchett 'A joy to read' Sarah Haywood __________ Coming of age isn't just for kids. Astrid Strick has always tried to do her best for her three children. Now, they're finally grown up - but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Elliot doesn't have any idea who he really is, or how to communicate with his own sons. Porter is, at last, pregnant - but feels incapable of rising to the challenge. Nicky has fled to distant New Mexico, where he's living the bohemian dream. And Astrid herself is up to things that would make her children's hair curl. Until now, the family have managed to hide their true selves from each other. But when Nicky's incorrigibly curious daughter Cecelia comes to stay, her arrival threatens to upturn everything... Witty, astute, and irresistibly readable, All Adults Here is a novel about how to survive inside a modern family from New York Times bestselling author Emma Straub. __________ Praise for Emma Straub: 'Funny, poignant and beautifully observed' Jojo Moyes 'Witty and big-hearted ... leaves you smiling for days' Maria Semple 'Intimate, epic, beautifully observed' Jennifer Egan 'Smart, compelling ... irresistible' Liane Moriarty 'Has all the pleasures of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits . . . with a Lorrie Moore-like sense of the absurdities of contemporary life' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times