All Grown Up

Moreish vignettes tell the story of New Yorker Andrea Bern, from her hippy childhood and rock’n’roll brother with the terribly sick infant to her abandoned calling as a painter and messy, messed-up flings.

What you make of her will depend largely on where you are in your own life. If you have kids, a spouse or a career you care about, you’ll find her insufferably narcissistic. If not, you’ll relate to her efforts to chart a path into her 40s without ticking any of the traditional boxes. Expect to be drawn in either way.

Hephzibah Anderson