02213cam a2200433 i 4500 364920285 TxAuBib 20181204120000.0 180223s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018002722 9780525511748 0525511741 (OCoLC)1023858598 TxAuBib rda Hulse, Caroline, 1977- The adults : a novel / Caroline Hulse. First U.S. edition. New York : Random House, 2018. ©2018. 356 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is 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, Iron-Man-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 rabbit. Together the five (or six?) of them grit their teeth over Forced Fun activities, drinking a little too much after bed-time, oversharing classified secrets about their pasts and before you know it their holiday is a powder keg that ends--where this story starts--with a tearful, frightened, call to the police... But what happened? They said they'd all be adults about this... -- Provided by publisher. 20181204. domestic fiction. Couples Fiction. Adulthood Fiction. Responsibility Fiction. Interpersonal conflict Fiction. Christmas stories. Adulthood. Couples. Responsibility. Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Psychological fiction.