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How to Adult
Apr 28, 2025 12:03 AM

Author:Stephen Wildish

How to Adult

Adulting (verb): To do grown-up things and hold responsibilities such as having a job, paying rent or doing laundry. A verb used exclusively by those who adult less than 50 per cent of the time.

If you've forgotten to pay your council tax, you’re hungover at work (again) and you’ve been living off pesto pasta for the past seventeen days, it's time to adult.

Authentic grown-up Stephen Wildish has produced a book for everyone who feels they need assistance getting through the confusing landscape of the real world.

Reviews

After the success of their ingenious idea of matching pictures from Ladybird's archive with prose that mocks the mores of modern life, they are bowing out with a bang with this compendium

—— Sunday Telegraph

A new compendium collects together in brief humorous guides to adult life, covering everything from coping with high cholesterol to understanding teenagers, and our favourite, getting on the housing ladder

—— Big Issue

Really smart

—— Gaby Hinsliff , Guardian

From beauty routines and housework expectations to the way mothers are often treated in the workplace, the Man Who Has It All shares expertly flipped one-liners.

—— Stylist

At last, a practical guide to help men stay hydrated and create the illusion of authority in the workplace ... I'd buy a copy for my partner, if only he had the time to read it! Bless him.

—— Slummy Single Mummy

I alternately sniggered and raged my way through this book. Devilishly genius.

—— Caroline Criado-Perez

A simple idea, beautifully executed, which pithily derides the blind eye that allows sexism to become endemic.

—— Richard Herring

For feminism that makes you laugh. Despair, but also laugh.

—— Glosswitch, New Statesman

I simply love @manwhohasitall. Nothing points up the absurdity and inequality of debates about care and career as effectivly as simply putting the shoe on the other foot. Follow him on Twitter and read this book!

—— Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America

Hilarious and eye-opening.

—— Huffington Post

Playfully subversive and long overdue, this book takes those ubiquitous gender stereotypes and grinds them to dust. Very funny indeed.

—— Rebecca Front

Making everyone giggle.

—— New York Post

Perfect satire.

—— Upworthy

If you love satire, you'll love this.

—— Viv Groskop on Woman's Hour

Terrific!

—— Joanne Harris
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