Desire, Power And A Dangerous Coming-Of-Age Spiral
Jennette McCurdy’s fiction debut follows seventeen-year-old Waldo as desire, power and the need to be seen pull her towards her teacher. Funny, uncomfortable and piercingly observant, it is a provocative coming-of-age novel for readers drawn to messy longing, taboo attraction and morally difficult territory.
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Desire, Power And A Dangerous Coming-Of-Age Spiral
Jennette McCurdy’s fiction debut follows seventeen-year-old Waldo as desire, power and the need to be seen pull her towards her teacher. Funny, uncomfortable and piercingly observant, it is a provocative coming-of-age novel for readers drawn to messy longing, taboo attraction and morally difficult territory.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Want literary fiction that is provocative, sharp and emotionally raw.
- Are interested in obsession, taboo desire and the hunger to be noticed.
- Respond to classrooms, writing workshops and inner lives charged with longing.
- Prefer darkly funny coming-of-age stories that stay morally messy and psychologically close.
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.
Ideal for readers who...
want provocative literary fiction that interrogates sex, class, desire and power
enjoy sharp, dark humour paired with emotional vulnerability and ache
are drawn to intense coming-of-age stories about longing, identity and being seen
like morally complicated characters and taboo attraction explored with nuance
are fans of Jennette McCurdy and want to read her highly anticipated fiction debut - About The Author
- Jennette McCurdy is the Sunday Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died, winner of the 2023 American Library Association Alex Award and the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography. The book has been published in more than thirty countries and has sold more than three million copies. McCurdy is creating, writing, executive producing, and showrunning an Apple TV+ series loosely inspired by I'm Glad My Mom Died, starring Jennifer Aniston. Half His Age is her debut novel.
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- ISBN
- 9780008617707
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- 4th Estate, (20 January 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 276
- Weight
- 300 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 24 mm
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