Showing posts with label Book Beginnings on Fridays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Beginnings on Fridays. Show all posts
Friday, 28 September 2018
Book Beginnings on Fridays - Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
On 29 September 1981,
Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His
former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a
Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but
to take her into his chaotic and often eccentric family's home in
Liverpool.
Friday, 1 December 2017
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Christmas Train
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
My book beginning is The Christmas Train by David Baldacci, my second festive novel of the season.
Tom Langdon was a journalist, a globetrotting one, because it was in his blood to roam widely. Where others saw only instability and fear in life, Tom felt graced by an embracing independence.
Book Description
Disillusioned
journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington to LA in time for
Christmas. Forced to take the train across the country because of a
slight 'misunderstanding' at airport security, he begins a journey of
self-discovery and rude awakenings, mysterious goings-on and thrilling
adventures, screwball escapades and holiday magic.
He has no idea
that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him
into the rugged terrain of his own heart, where he will rediscover
people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had
lost.
Friday, 24 November 2017
Book Beginnings on Fridays - A Christmas Party
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
My book beginning is A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer, I haven't read anything by her before but I'm enjoying this festive crime novel.
It was a source of great satisfaction to Joseph Herriard that the holly trees were in full berry. He seemed to find in this circumstance an assurance that the projected reunion of the family would be a success.
Book Description
‘Tis the season to find whodunit …
It is no ordinary Christmas at Lexham Manor.
Six holiday guests find themselves the suspects in a murder inquiry when the old Scrooge who owns the substantial estate is found stabbed in the back.
Whilst the delicate matter of inheritance could be the key to this crime, the real conundrum is how any of the suspects could have entered the locked room where the victim was found, to commit this foul deed.
For Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard, the investigation is also complicated by the fact that every guest at Lexham Manor is hiding something – casting suspicion far and wide…
Friday, 7 July 2017
Book Beginnings on Fridays - Fever
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week my book beginning is Fever by Deon Meyer. I've loved post apocalyptic fiction since I was a teenager and read The Stand by Stephen King.
I want to tell you about my father's murder.
I want to tell you who killed him, and why. This is the story of my life. And the story of your life and your world too, as you will see.
Nico Storm and his father drive across a desolate South Africa, constantly alert for feral dogs, motorcycle gangs, nuclear contamination. They are among the few survivors of a virus that has killed most of the world's population. Young as he is, Nico realises that his superb markmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector.
But Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is a man with a vision. He is searching for a place that can become a refuge, a beacon of light and hope in a dark and hopeless world, a community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins.
And so Amanzi is born.
Friday, 17 February 2017
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Doll Funeral
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
My book beginning this week is from The Doll Funeral by Kate Hamer:
My thirteenth birthday and I became a hunter for souls.
I knew the moment that Mum called me something was going to happen. I heard it in her voice.
Description
My name is Ruby. I
live with Barbara and Mick. They're not my real parents, but they tell
me what to do, and what to say. I'm supposed to say that the bruises on
my arms and the black eye came from falling down the stairs.
But
there are things I won't say. I won't tell them I'm going to hunt for my
real parents. I don't say a word about Shadow, who sits on the stairs,
or the Wasp Lady I saw on the way to bed.
I did tell Mick that I
saw the woman in the buttercup dress, hanging upside down from her seat
belt deep in the forest at the back of our house. I told him I saw death
crawl out of her. He said he'd give me a medal for lying.
I wasn't lying. I'm a hunter for lost souls and I'm going to be with my real family. And I'm not going to let Mick stop me.
Friday, 14 October 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Dry
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
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This week my book beginning is The Dry by Jane Harper. I received a copy from Netgalley and it is due to be published by Little Brown on 17th January 2017.
It wasn't as though the farm hadn't seen death before, and the blowflies didn't discriminate. To them there was no difference between a carcass and a corpse.
Description
I just can't understand how someone like him could do something like that.
Amid
the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn't rained in
small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community
become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally
murdered. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler, who committed suicide after
slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son, is guilty.
Policeman
Aaron Falk returns to the town of his youth for the funeral of his
childhood best friend, and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation.
As questions mount and suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is
forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier.
Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke's death
threatens to unearth. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings,
secrets from his past and why he left home bubble to the surface as he
questions the truth of his friend's crime.
Friday, 1 July 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - I'm Travelling Alone
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week my book is one that I only got in the post just over one hour ago and started reading straight way. I'm Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjork was published in 2013 in Norway and will be published in the UK in December 2016 in paperback, for those that can't wait until then it is available in hardback or eBook formats now.
Walter Henriksen took a seat at the kitchen table and made a desperate attempt to force down a little of the breakfast his wife had prepared for him. Bacon and eggs. Herring, salami and freshly baked bread. A cup of tea brewed from herbs from their very own garden.
Book Description
When a six-year-old girl is found dead, hanging from a tree, the only clue the Oslo Police have to work with is an airline tag around her neck. It reads 'I'm travelling alone'.
One divorced detective estranged from his only child. The other with no family to speak of, determined to take her own life. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team.
Friday, 17 June 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - #ReadWithoutPrejudice
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week my choice is intriguing, I don't know the title of the book, what it's about or even who the author is. It's due to be published by Hodder & Stoughton on 1st October 2016 and they have an online campaign called #readwithoutprejudice. I've only just been approved for a copy on Netgalley and will start reading it in a minute, I cannot wait to see what it's like.
The miracle happened on West Seventy-fourth Street, in the home where Mama worked. It was a big brownstone encircled by a wrought iron fence, and overlooking either side of the ornate door were gargoyles, their granite faces carved from my nightmares.
Book Description:
There are two points in life when we are all equal: at the moment of birth and at the moment of death. It is how we live in between that defines us.
Delicately balanced.
Perfectly crafted.
Beautifully written.
We want you to immerse yourself in this dazzling novel, free from any preconceptions that a cover, title or author can bring.
We ask you simply to #readwithoutprejudice.
Friday, 20 May 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Fireman
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
My book beginning this week is The Fireman. At the time of writing this post I'm almost a third of a way into the book, I love apocalyptic fiction and I'm thoroughly enjoying the latest Joe Hill novel. My copy is an ARC from Netgalley and Orion Publishing and it's published in the UK on 7th June.
Harper Grayson had seen lots of people burn on TV, everyone had, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school.
Book Description
Nobody knew where the virus came from.
FOX News said it had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s.
MSNBC
said sources indicated it might've been created by engineers at
Halliburton and stolen by culty Christian types fixated on the Book of
Revelation.
CNN reported both sides.
While every TV station debated the cause, the world burnt.
Pregnant
school nurse, HARPER GRAYSON, had seen lots of people burn on TV, but
the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the
school.
With the epic scope of THE PASSAGE and the emotional impact
of THE ROAD, this is one woman's story of survival at the end of the
world.
Friday, 13 May 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Secret To Not Drowning
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week my book beginning is The Secret To Not Drowning by Colette Snowden. I only heard about this book on Twitter the other day and have borrowed an ebook from Suffolk libraries, it's one of the books included in Brave New Reads and you can read about them all here
There are four people in the room but only one of them is me.
I am the only one flat on my back, legs in the air, knickers somewhere on the floor. I am the only one focusing only on the paper towels stacked in piles from the floor almost to the ceiling. Little green bundles, ready and waiting for all those doctors and nurses to wash their hands and dry them again afterwards.
Book Description:
How did a girl who once dreamed of being a Charlie's Angel become such a cowed and submissive woman? When a chance meeting at her once a week trip to the swimming baths develops into a secret relationship she has the chance to become the women she wanted to be but is it too late?
Friday, 6 May 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - Hex
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
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of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
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This week my book beginning is from Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt which I only started reading yesterday.
Steve Grant rounded the corner of the parking lot behind Black Spring Market & Deli just in time to see Katherine van Wyler get run over by an antique Dutch barrel organ. For a minute he thought it was an optical illusion, because instead of being thrown back onto the street the woman melted into the wooden curlicues, feathered angel wings, and chrome-coloured organ pipes.
Book Description
Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay until death. Whoever comes to stay, never leaves.
Welcome
to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted
by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and
mouth are sewn shut. Blind and silenced, she walks the streets and
enters homes at will. She stands next to children's beds for nights on
end. So accustomed to her have the townsfolk become that they often
forget she's there. Or what a threat she poses. Because if the stitches
are ever cut open, the story goes, the whole town will die.
The
curse must not be allowed to spread. The elders of Black Spring have
used high-tech surveillance to quarantine the town. Frustrated with
being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break the strict
regulations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so doing, they send
the town spiraling into a dark nightmare.
Friday, 18 March 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Couple Next Door
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week I'm reading an ARC of The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena, it's due to be published on 14th July.
Anne can feel the acid churning in her stomach and creeping up her throat; her head is swimming. She's had too much to drink.
Book Description
You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall.
Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying.
Your
husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door.
You'll have the baby monitor and you'll take it in turns to go back
every half hour.
Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on
her last. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet
house, your worst fears are realized. She's gone.
You've never had to call the police before. But now they're in your home, and who knows what they'll find there.
What would you be capable of, when pushed past your limit?
Friday, 4 March 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Stopped Heart
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
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of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
My book beginning is from The Stopped Heart which is the latest novel from Julie Myerson.
It was a sunny day. The sky was thick and high and blue. Addie Sands was standing in the lane and she was screaming. There was blood everywhere. On her skirts, her wrists, her face.
Book Description
Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past.
During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him in. But very soon, it’s clear he has no intention of leaving.
A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent’s worst nightmare. Now, escaping the memories and the headlines, they have found an idyllic new home in rural Suffolk. A cottage, a beautiful garden. The perfect place to forget. To move on. But life doesn’t always work that way.
A devastating depiction of profound loss, sexual longing, love and true evil, The Stopped Heart is the finest novel to date from this most fearless and original of writers.
Friday, 12 February 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week my book beginning is from The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon.
Mrs Creasy disappeared on a Monday.
I know it was a Monday, because it was the day the dustbin men came, and the avenue was filled with a smell of scraped plates.
'What's he up to?' My father nodded at the lace in the kitchen window. Mr Creasy was wandering the pavement in his shirtsleeves.
Book Description:
Summer, 1976
Mrs Creasy is missing and The Avenue is alive with whispers. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, ten-year-olds Grace and Tilly decide to take matters into their own hands.
But as doors and mouths begin to open and the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets, the amateur detectives will find more than they could have imagined...
Friday, 5 February 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - Little Black Lies
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
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of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
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I'm currently reading Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton.
I've been wondering if I have what it takes to kill. Whether I can look a living creature in the eye and take the one irreversible action that ends a life. Asked and answered, I suppose. I have no difficulty in killing, I'm actually rather good at it.
Book Decription
In such a small community
as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a
dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely...
When
another child goes missing, and then a third, it’s no longer possible
to believe that their deaths were accidental, and the villagers must
admit that there is a murderer among them. Even Catrin Quinn, a damaged
woman living a reclusive life after the accidental deaths of her own two
sons a few years ago, gets involved in the searches and the
speculation.
And suddenly, in this wild and beautiful place that
generations have called home, no one feels safe and the hysteria begins
to rise.
But three islanders—Catrin, her childhood best friend,
Rachel, and her ex-lover Callum—are hiding terrible secrets. And they
have two things in common: all three of them are grieving, and none of
them trust anyone, not even themselves.
Friday, 29 January 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - Sweetheart Sweetheart
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
My book beginning is from Sweetheart Sweetheart by Bernard Taylor.
I can't see the sun right now; there's an angel in the way.
As I lie here in the short-cropped grass with my eyes just half open a butterfly alights on the carved angel's head. It stays only a few seconds - its wings opening and closing - then takes off, fluttering away, dancing up and down over the grey stone wall.
Book Description
David Warwick, an
Englishman living in New York, has a sudden premonition that his twin
brother, Colin, is in danger. He returns to England and learns the
shocking truth: both Colin and his young bride Helen have died ghastly
deaths - deaths that no one in the village wants to talk about.
Now
David has inherited his brother's home, Gerrard's Hill Cottage, a
lovely house with a lush garden that seems to promise peace and comfort
to all who dwell there. But as David tries to unearth the facts of what
really happened to his brother and his wife, he has no idea of the
horror and evil that surround him or the terrible fate that may be in
store...
Friday, 22 January 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Ballroom
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
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of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
I started reading an ARC of The Ballroom by Anna Hope yesterday evening. It's published by Doubleday and Transworld Publishers on 11th February. I loved the authors previous novel and you can read my review of The Wake here
'Are you going to behave?' The man's voice echoed.
'Are you going to behave?'
She made a noise. Could have been yes. Could have been no, but the blanket was pulled off her head and she gasped for air.
Book Description
Where love is your only escape ....
1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors,
where men and women are kept apart
by high walls and barred windows,
there is a ballroom vast and beautiful.
For one bright evening every week
they come together
and dance.
When John and Ella meet
It is a dance that will change
two lives forever.
Set
over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE
BALLROOM is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness
and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.
Friday, 15 January 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - NOS4R2
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
Yesterday I started reading NOS4R2 by Joe Hill.
Nurse Thornton dropped into the long term care ward a little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.
She was coasting on autopilot, her thoughts not on her work.
Book Description
Victoria McQueen has a
secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing
photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff
Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within
moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across
Massachusetts or across the country.
Charles Talent Manx has a
way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938
Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4R2 vanity plate. With his old car, he
can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that
transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of
amusements he calls “Christmasland.”
Then, one day, Vic goes
looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic,
the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and
desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about
Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new
passenger: Vic’s own son.
Friday, 8 January 2016
Book Beginnings on Fridays - The Darkest Secret
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
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of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
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This week my book beginning is from The Darkest Secret, it's the latest novel by Alex Marwood and was published on the 7th January by Sphere.
Dear all -
Apologies for the general email, but I desperately need your help.
My goddaughter, Coco Jackson, disappeared from her family's holiday home in Bournemouth on the night of Sunday/Monday August 29th/30th, the bank holiday weekend just gone. Coco is three years old.
All police experience suggests that the first forty eight hours are crucial in cases of child abduction, so time is of the essence.
Book Description
When identical twin
Coco goes missing during a family celebration, there is a media frenzy.
Her parents are rich and influential, as are the friends they were with
at their holiday home by the sea.
But what really happened to Coco?
Over
two intense weekends - the first when Coco goes missing and the second
twelve years later at the funeral of her father - the darkest of secrets
will gradually be revealed...
Friday, 20 November 2015
Book Beginnings on Fridays - Did You Ever Have A Family
Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week my book beginning is from a novel I've only just this minute started reading, Did You Ever Have A Family by Bill Clegg.
He wakes to the sound of sirens. Many, loud, and very near. Then horns; short, angry grunts like the buzzers signaling time-out in the basketball games he watches but does not play in at school.
Book Description
This book of dark
secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughter’s wedding,
June Reid’s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family – her
present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and
alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hundreds of
miles from her Connecticut home, held captive by memories and the
mistakes she has made with her only child, Lolly, and her partner, Luke.
In
the turbulence of grief and gossip left in June’s wake we slowly make
sense of the unimaginable. The novel is a gathering of voices, and each
testimony has a new revelation about what led to the catastrophe –
Luke’s alienated mother Lydia, the watchful motel owners, their cleaner
Cissy, the teenage pothead who lives nearby – everyone touched by the
tragedy finds themselves caught in the undertow, as their secret
histories finally come to light.
Lit by the clarity of understanding that true sadness brings, Did You Ever Have a Family is an elegant, unforgettable story that reveals humanity at its worst and best, through loss and love, fracture and forgiveness. At the book’s heart is the idea of family – the ones we are born with and the ones we create – and the desire, in the face of everything, to go on living.
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