How to Be a Grown-Up

Written by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

Narrated by Tara Sands

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—that the future of digital media is a high-end 'lifestyle' sitea-for kids! Rory must adapt to this hyper-digitized, over-glamorized, narcissistic world of millennials...whatever it takes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media Audio
• Release date: Dec 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9781682621240

Emma McLaughlin

Newsweek declared Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus’s The Nanny Diaries a “phenomenon.” It is a #1 New York Times bestseller and the longest-running hardcover bestseller of 2002. In 2007 it was released as a major motion picture starring Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, and Alicia Keys. McLaughlin and Kraus are also the authors of three other New York Times bestsellers—Citizen Girl, Dedication and Nanny Returns—as well as the soon-to-be-released novels Between You & Me and Over You. They have appeared numerous times on CNN, MSNBC, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, and The View. In addition to writing for television and film, McLaughlin and Kraus travel around the country speaking to young women about feminism and gender issues in American corporate culture.

Reviews for How to Be a Grown-Up

[lmjenkins · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The creators of "The Nanny Diaries" (which kicked off a new genre of chick lit) have gone back to their promising beginnings and written a winner. Rory McGovern Taylor is a heroine of the truest sort who kicks it into high gear when its necessary but keeps it real inside. Luckily, as readers, we are privy to her inner thoughts which are hilarious and vulnerable and keep you wanting to read. This tale of a glamorous but not glamorous life has endings and beginnings and is worth a read.

[shazjhb · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Easy sweet read. Enjoyable book to read.

[shelleyraec · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

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 announces he needs some space, and Rory is suddenly the only grown-up at work and home.Rory often made me shake my head, both in empathy and disbelief. I could relate to the chaos of parenting, less so to the doormat aspects of her personality. Sadly most of the other characters were little more than stereotypes, from Rory's man child husband, and loopy mother in law, to bitchy colleague, and the hunky man about town love interest. I did like Claire though, and Josh of course, as I was meant to.Rory's experiences in the workplace are highly exaggerated, or at least I hope so. I certainly wouldn't stand for Taylor's snotty attitude, life is too short and I'm far too old (just a year older that Rory) to put up with that sort of crap. The highstrung, self absorbed Millennial staff are ripe targets for mocking however and McLaughlin and Kraus delight in poking fun at them, as well as the inane 'jargon' favoured by youth that actually have nothing to say.How To Be a Grown-Up was entertaining, but only mildly so. A quick read that demands little on a lazy summer's afternoon.