Half His Age
Format:Hardback
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Publishing:20th Jan '26
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 20th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died
The highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died.
The highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died.
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher.
Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn’t? Or are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.
Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is an incisive study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired and to be loved.
PRAISE FOR I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED…
'Jennette McCurdy is the queen of lemonade from lemons, using her trauma to weave a painfully funny story that also illuminates the commodification of teenage girls in America. An important cultural document just as much as a searingly personal one' Lena Dunham
“How can a book be so sad and also so funny? It's an art, and Jennette McCurdy has mastered it here. I’m Glad My Mom Died is hysterical and heartbreaking and fascinating all at the same time' Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy
'A layered account of a woman reckoning with love and violence at once. This complexity is what makes I’m Glad My Mom Died feel real' The Atlantic
'Unflinching. It made me laugh; it made me cry. It's such a funny, dark, moving, honest, real, uncensored book, and it's unlike anything I've ever read' Salon
'The number-one New York Times-bestselling memoir that has also achieved pop-cultural phenomenon status. McCurdy distinguishes herself from standard-issue celebrity memoir fare with a vivid, biting, darkly comic tone and an immersive present tense' Vogue
'McCurdy’s book must be written by someone. Why? It must be done because there is someone out there right now who truly believes that life will never be any different. People like Jennette exist to tell them: You are not wrong, you can trust yourself. You can do this too' Observer
“A stunning memoir. McCurdy reveals herself to be a stingingly funny and insightful writer, capable of great empathy and a brutal punchline'Time
'A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and funny' The New York Times
'A magnum opus. Sharply funny and empathetic' The Washington Post
'The publishing sensation that—in short, punchy sentences delivered with a high level of self-perception—could transform the trauma memoir business' Guardian
ISBN: 9780008617691
Dimensions: 222mm x 141mm x 21mm
Weight: 270g
278 pages