Secrets of a Family Album - Hardcover

Dewar, Isla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755300815 ISBN 13: 9780755300815

Publisher: Headline Review, 2004

Synopsis

A wonderful, richly textured story focusing on several generations of one family through a year of their lives. At the heart of the novel is Lily: sister of Marie (three children, no husband) and Rory (doesn't want to come home for Christmas as he knows it will all be platform kisses and catch-up conversations); wife of Art (cool and laid back, everything Lily would like to be and just isn't); daughter of Mattie and John (in domestic chaos - have just learned that their pensions will be about half of what they anticipated and that they face penury in their old age); granddaughter of Grandpa (lives a secret Internet life posing as a much younger man). It's when Grandpa accidentally pops the TV remote in the post that the family's troubles really begin...

About this title

Review:

She is a fine observer of the nuances of family life - the rivalries and jealousy, the struggles for power and affection. She evokes atmosphere and place powerfully... Her characters are warm and lovably eccentric (Scotland on Sunday)

Book Description:

A warm, perceptive and drily humorous new novel from the wonderful Isla Dewar, who gets under the skin of both her characters and her readers

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0755300815
• ISBN 13: 9780755300815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352