This Family

‘… demands to be experienced… A glorious, sweeping family saga from one of the most exciting novelists of recent times.’ JESS MOOR

‘The intimacy of a family with all its complications is a quietly devastating read. Loved it.’ JULIE OWEN MOYLAN

‘A beautiful novel, quiet and profound’ KAREN ANGELICO

It is my dearest wish, that after so long apart, I am able to bring this family together for my wedding day.

This house. This family.

Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and laugh and bicker in this house. Today she is getting married in this house, with all her family in attendance.

The wedding celebrations have brought fractured family together for the first time in years: there’s Phoebe and her husband Michael, children in tow. The young and sensitive Rosie, with her new partner. Irene, Mary’s ex-mother-in-law. Even Emma, Mary’s eldest, is back for the wedding – despite being at odds with everyone else.

Set over the course of an English summer’s day but punctuated with memories from the past forty years of love and loss, hope and joy, heartbreak and grief, this is the story of a family. Told by a chorus of characters, it is an exploration of the small moments that bring us to where we are, the changes that are brought about by time, and what, despite everything, stays the same.

ISBN: 9781529340716

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Imprint: Coronet

Publication Date: 11 May 2023

Edition: Hardback

Pages: 416