Author: MELOY, MAILE
Title: A Family Daughter
Description: John Murray, UK. Softcover. New. 9780719566479 336 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Brilliantly entertaining, A Family Daughter might also be the most insightful novel about families and love that you will read this year.: It's 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with the chicken pox during a heat wave. The events set in motion that summer will span decades and continents and change the Santerres forever. : A rich, full novel about passion and desire, fear and betrayal, A Family Daughter illuminates both the joys and complications of contemporary life, and the relationship between truth and fiction. : Review: 'With its humour, athletic sex and explosive secrets, A FAMILY DAUGHTER is the delinquent offspring of LIARS AND SAINTS, and deserves similar success' (Daily Mail): Book of the month: ' You can't help but be caught up by Meloy's enthralling storytelling which alternates between dramatic narrative swoops and tiny moments of emotional acuity. A truly original piece of work, (it) establishes Meloy as a writer with an imaginative territory as distinctive and finely worked as that of Anne Tyler' (Marie Claire): 'The new book is better than the first, but it's hard to separate them. Ms. Meloy's reflections on truth and fiction are best appreciated when the two novels collide. A FAMILY DAUGHTER roams engrossingly from California to Paris to Buenos Aires in ways that make it a big book as well as a swift, slender, graceful one . This new book has the deep ramifications of more ambitious fiction' (New York Times): '[Meloy] . writes wonderfully well, with an efficiency so lithe it's like watching an athlete' (Guardian): 'A deliciously duplicitous book, a darkly perceptive examination of American mores disguised as a light family romance.' (Sunday Telegraph (Seven)): 'A great weekend read' (Vogue): 'Both compassionate and gripping, A FAMILY DAUGHTER is a wonderful piece of fiction' (Books Quarterly (Waterstone's)) : Book Description: The brilliant second novel from Maile Meloy, following Richard & Judy Summer Read and Orange-shortlisted Liars and Saints Size: 13.1 x 19.7 x 2 cm. 336 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Paperback; ISBN: 0719566479. ISBN/EAN: 9780719566479. Inventory No: F239-1101.

Keywords: BZDB395 Fiction; Paperback; A Family Daughter Maile Meloy Paperback


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