A Friend of the Family: The addictive and emotionally satisfying page-turner that will have you hooked - Softcover

Jewell, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140295976 ISBN 13: 9780140295979

Publisher: Penguin, 2003

Synopsis

The huge bestseller from the author of Then She Was Gone and The Girls

A stranger in the house can only mean trouble

The London family is in crisis.

Newly-divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he shouldn't.

Prize-winning writer Sean has a hot new girlfriend, and a dose of writer's block.

Their brother Ned has just come back from Australia, leaving his girlfriend behind.

And now they have a new lodger - a mysterious stranger.

But is he the friend this family needs, or a troublemaker they could do without?

'Terrific stuff: touching, funny and sentient' Sunday Times

'Funny and emotionally satisfying' The Times

'A heart-warming page-turner from start to finish' Heat

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Review:

This book shows Jewell coming into her prime - both funny and emotionally satisfying (The Times)

Terrific stuff: touching, funny and sentient (Sunday Times)

A heart-warming page-turner from start to finish . . . Quite possibly her best yet (Heat)

Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction (Glamour)

The perfect summer read (Marie Claire)

Jewell's light style can be deceptive; her anatomisation of twenty and thirty-something urban relationships is at times uncomfortably keen . . . It's a lot of fun (Daily Mail)

This novel will make you feel warm inside (New Woman)

Praise for Lisa Jewell (-)

Addictively readable (The Times)

A joy . . . a fun summer read (Guardian)

Synopsis:

Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend. Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points: Newly divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he really shouldn't; prize-winning novelist Sean's got a hot new girlfriend and a dose of writer's block; and Ned's just back from Australia, without the girl he took with him or a clue what he's going to do with his life. If that wasn't enough for one household, the Londons also have a new lodger a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend or foe to the family?

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140295976
• ISBN 13: 9780140295979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432