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ADULTS, TECHNICALLY:
Growing up was easy. Becoming an adult took a little longer.When The Anchor, the pub that raised them, closes its doors for the last time, six childhood friends return to help clear it out.
Once, they believed they would change the world.
Instead, they became divorced. Burnt out. Successful. Lonely. Parents. Caregivers. People who accidentally let twenty-five years slip by between catch-ups.
Over one long night of clearing shelves, emptying cellars and uncovering the forgotten corners of a place that knew all their secrets, old rivalries resurface, old jokes refuse to die, and the stories they've been telling themselves about adulthood begin to unravel.
As the hours pass, they discover that the hardest thing isn't saying goodbye to a building.
It's admitting the lives they imagined never quite happened.
Warm, funny and deeply moving, Adults, Technically is a novel about friendship, grief, second chances and the people who remember who you were before the world told you who to become.
Because sometimes home isn't a place.
It's the people who are still there when you finally find your way back.
Once, they believed they would change the world.
Instead, they became divorced. Burnt out. Successful. Lonely. Parents. Caregivers. People who accidentally let twenty-five years slip by between catch-ups.
Over one long night of clearing shelves, emptying cellars and uncovering the forgotten corners of a place that knew all their secrets, old rivalries resurface, old jokes refuse to die, and the stories they've been telling themselves about adulthood begin to unravel.
As the hours pass, they discover that the hardest thing isn't saying goodbye to a building.
It's admitting the lives they imagined never quite happened.
Warm, funny and deeply moving, Adults, Technically is a novel about friendship, grief, second chances and the people who remember who you were before the world told you who to become.
Because sometimes home isn't a place.
It's the people who are still there when you finally find your way back.
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Published July 29, 2026
About the author
Nick Pollack
127 books5 followersNick comes to writing through a visual lens, spending most of his career directing short films & commercials in Australia.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
Romantic thriller ‘Pack Only What You Need’ is his second fiction title for adult readers, the first being a comedy romance ‘Any Girl Who Loves The Beatles Is Bound To Break Your Heart’, published in 2017.
In addition, he regularly writes novels and screenplays for the children & family market. He has written three books for middle-grade readers, a wish-fulfillment fantasy ‘The Magician’s Raincoat’ and the first two books in a series titled ‘Zodee Ack, My Imaginary Foe’, with a fourth due in late 2020.
He has collaborated on a Christmas adventure script called ‘AKA Nick Claus’ with screenwriter Diane Drake ('What Women Want', ‘Only You’), and is currently working on screenplays for several new family films to be released in 2020.
He's particularly proud to have received an Australian Director's Guild award for directing commercials, and he is in pre-production on several feature film projects. His recently completed short feature ‘And Though The Music Ended, We Danced On Through The Night’, premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival and collected accolades at over a dozen international festivals.
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