LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
Elegant, intimate, and told over the course of a single summer’s day, Kate Sawyer’s This Family is heart-achingly engaging, with a chorus of voices contributing to its magic.
It’s Mary’s wedding day and, after a long time apart, all her children have gathered in the house they grew up in. With the warm glow of nostalgia, reminiscences and love flecked with anger, regret and grief, the rhythmic pace has an enchanting effect. Immensely moving, and true-to-life messy, Sawyer’s writing conjures that unique, aching feeling of being part of a quietly momentous occasion.
After becoming utterly invested in every nuance of the characters’ lives and relationships, effectively given a seat at their kitchen table, leaving their company will most likely leave you feeling bereft, but also enriched and all the wiser for having met them. Beautiful and bittersweet, This Family is a dazzler.
Joanne Owen
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This Family Synopsis
An ambitious new novel of family life past and present from the author of the Costa Book Awards shortlisted THE STRANDING
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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781529340716 |
| Publication date: |
11th May 2023 |
| Author: |
Kate Sawyer |
| Publisher: |
Coronet Books an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
404 pages |
| Primary Genre |
General Fiction
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Press Reviews
Kate Sawyer Press Reviews
Friendship, rivalry, infidelity and the love that binds them all together are unpacked in this ambitious, immersive novel - Red Magazine
'A vivid, family saga, rich in character and detail.' ERICKA WALLER
'A masterfully composed, perfectly observed family chronicle that feels utterly real in its evocations of grief, anger and love.' EMMA HUGHES
'Brilliantly plotted, deftly written and oozing with sophisticated style... It's what everyone will be reading this summer.' ANNIE GARTHWAITE
'A compelling portrait of modern family politics... A must read for anybody ( everybody!) who's loved and despaired over their nearest and dearest. I loved it.' AINGEALA FLANNERY
'Extraordinary. So elegant, compelling and beautifully written... a vivid and insightful exploration of the complexities of sisterhood, adulthood, desire and grief.' DAISY BUCHANAN
'This Family will reaffirm your faith in all the ways that love can be true.' BUKI PAPILLON
'A sensitive, lyrical family saga... This will be a huge hit.' REBECCA PERT
'A gorgeous novel, peppered with the nostalgic joy and tension of one messy family.' POLLY CROSBY
'... 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
