Beschreibung
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2025** No one need know about her mother's deviation A mother following her heart A father with the law on his side A child caught in the middle 'I'll be thinking about it forever' Barbara Kingsolver 'Powerful ...smart and often heartbreaking' Guardian 'A brilliant book... Full of heart, sympathy and sadness' Sara Pascoe 'I was caught up from the first page' Clare Chambers ' I am in awe... a must read' Jennie Godfrey 'Beautifully written' Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month 1982 Dawn is a young wife and mother hemmed in by village life. Then Hazel appears like a torch in the dark. Their attraction is instant and suddenly Dawn's world is more joyful, and more complicated, than she ever expected. 2022 Maggie has always lived with an absence where her mother should be. Her father never speaks of her and it feels impossible to ask. Then an official letter arrives with news from the past, and Maggie must face a truth far bigger than just her family's secret. At once heart-breaking and hopeful, A Family Matter asks how we might heal from the wounds of the past, and what we might learn from them. 'A beautiful and tender exploration of parental love, prejudice and the things we carry' RACHEL JOYCE Goodreads Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2025 ***READERS ARE IN LOVE WITH A FAMILY MATTER*** 'I would rate this 10 stars if I could' 'Utterly brilliant, I was captivated from page one' 'This book had my whole heart and more' 'A beautiful, heartbreaking, important book'
| EAN: | 9781784745844 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 15.05.2025 |
| Autoren: | Lynch, Claire |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 224 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Family Life |
| Keyword: | family sagas; family; queer; summer reads; summer reading; books for her; fiction books; lgbt books; motherhood; literary fiction; lgbt fiction; family life; books for women; lgbtq; novels; book club reads; popular books; book club recommendations; best new books; feminist books; top 10 fiction; best books 2025; relationships; new fiction books; contemporary fiction; lesbian fiction |
| Fachschema: | Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Großbritannien / Roman, Erzählung~Achtziger Jahre / Roman, Erzählung~Lesbisch / Roman, Erzählung~Novelle - Novellistik |
| Fachkategorie: | Familienleben~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Liebe und Beziehungen~Novelle (Kurzroman) |
| Interesse Alter: | Bezug zu Lesben |
| Imprint-Titels: | Chatto & Windus |
| Länge: | 216 mm |
| Breite: | 135 mm |