How to Be a Grown-Up

Name: How to Be a Grown-Up
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Emma McLaughlin
ISBN: 9781682621240

Author: Emma McLaughlin

Narrator: Tara Sands

Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 12/08/2015

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

Rory McGovern is entering the prime of her life when her husband loses his dream job and announces he feels like 'taking a break'. Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. Without Blake, her only hope is to accept a full-time position working for two full-time twenty-somethings. A day out of b-school, these girls think they know it all and have been given the millions from venture capitalists to back up their delusion

About Emma McLaughlin

Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus are the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries, Citizen Girl, Nanny Returns, and the young adult novels, The Real Real and Over You. They are the cofounders of TheFinishedThought.com, a book coaching firm, and work together in New York City. For more information visit EmmaAndNicola.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenn on May 20, 2015

This book should really be titled "How to be a Grown Up in NYC." The humorous part of "Nanny Diaries" was how ridiculous Mrs. X was. This time, we see Rory as a newly single parent navigating the same ridiculousness. I easily related to the family/mom parts: kids getting sick, kids getting messy, ki......more

Goodreads review by Blake on September 10, 2015

This cover looked fun and hey, it's summer so why not? NY Times best selling authors! A book about being a working mom! Ok. Just no. I hated almost everything about this book. The characters were all extremely unlikable, the careers over the top unrealistic, and just ew gross. The only thing that kep......more

Goodreads review by Brigid on November 10, 2015

I picked up "How To Be A Grown-Up" from the "new releases" section of my library. The title intrigued me, then I saw it was by the writing team that wrote "The Nanny Diaries," which I enjoyed yonks ago. Their distinctive voice is very evident in this book, a breezy novel about a woman coming to term......more

Goodreads review by Shelleyrae on August 06, 2015

Rory McGovern is a part time freelance stylist, who lives in New York with her actor husband and two young children, but with her husband's star fading and residuals dwindling, Rory is forced to find full time work. Just as she lands a position with a start up webzine run by Millennials, her husband......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on August 02, 2015

I gave this two stars not because I didn't enjoy it, but because the writing at times bothered me. Definitely a classic chick-lit/beach read sort of book if you aren't looking to read something that will be a ton of commitment. I really liked Rory, but she was pretty much the ONLY fleshed out charac......more