Accidentally The Adult: 2

Apparently, I'm the adult now. This feels like an administrative error.At fifty-two, Ella Henshaw has somehow become the woman people ring when they need advice.Her children ask what they should do. Younger people assume she has wisdom. Older people occasionally ask her opinion.Nobody appears to have checked her qualifications.Because Ella is still Googling things she probably ought to know, trying ridiculous beauty tricks she found on the internet and occasionally needing an adultier adult herself.Accidentally the Adult is a funny, honest look at what happens when you reach the age where everyone assumes you've got life sorted - while you're privately wondering when that was supposed to happen.There are grown-up children with the sheer audacity to start giving her advice, family phone calls that begin with the terrifying word "Mum...", long-term love, changing bodies, ageing parents, grandchildren, questionable decisions and the everyday chaos of being the person everybody thinks knows what to do.She has raised children. Built a life. Survived family emergencies. Learned a fair bit along the way.She has also blown up an entire bouncy castle by mouth because she forgot the pump.So, swings and roundabouts.Warm, candid and full of the ridiculous moments nobody warns you about, Accidentally the Adult is for every woman who has reached middle age and realised something slightly alarming: There is no proper adult coming to take over.It's you.Good luck.