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Family Drama Books
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The Water Theatre
Lindsay Clarke
September 2010 Book of the Month.
This is deeply impressive, with rich imagery, a complex and absorbing plot and a style reminiscent of John Fowles' The Magus. It is a tale of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/09/2010
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The Brave
Nicholas Evans
September 2010 Book of the Month.
This will sweep you up in it’s grasp in the same way The Horse Whisperer did from it’s intriguing start and through the past and present...
Format: Hardback - Released: 16/09/2010
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Room
Emma Donoghue
August 2010 Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010.
This is probably the most extraordinary book you will read for a long time. Although the premise has been done before...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/08/2010
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A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
For a “literary” family saga, it’s hard to beat A Thousand Acres, set in Iowa; Jane Smiley’s novel is a modern retelling of the King Lear story. A novel to sweep you up and carry you along as the tragic...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/1992
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Julia's Chocolates
Cathy Lamb
Julia leaves her abusive fiancé and goes to stay with her aunt in an idyllic farmhouse setting, Introduced to her aunt’s group of slightly eccentric friends Julia begins to rebuild her life and move forward. This book just begs to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/09/2010
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Last Night in Twisted River
John Irving
John Irving does not disappoint in this tale of a father and son, spanning 50 years of their relationship at the end of the twentieth century. This is his twelfth novel and although familiar Irving themes are there it is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/09/2010
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The Village Newcomers
Rebecca Shaw
If you are new to this series the books do stand alone but there are recurring characters so you may well want to start from the beginning before or after reading this one. A lovely tale of village comings and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Second Hand Heart
Catherine Ryan Hyde
A moving story about a young girl who has a heart transplant. Although the story revolves around Vida and her relationship with the husband of her donor this is much more about the wonder of what a life saving operation...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/09/2010
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Nourishment
Gerard Woodward
Tory Pace’s husband is a Prisoner of War in World War II. When she receives a request from him for spicy letters she is at a loss but soon finds herself on a journey of discovery of carnal desire in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2010
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The Beginning of Spring
Penelope Fitzgerald
Highly evocative of time and place this wonderful novel set in the early 20th century is funny, touching and curious. A real treasure of a novel.
A "Piece of Passion" from the publisher...
Perhaps Penelope Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Beginning of Spring...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2003
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Of Bees and Mist
Erick Setiawan
A fabulous fable of love, loss and family; timeless, placeless, compelling and beautifully written. A world where angry words become stinging insects, men can turn into beasts and infidelity is hidden by time-sensitive mists. It fits into the literary realm...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/12/2009
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Minding Frankie
Maeve Binchy
A great family tale about the power of love and friendships. Noel finds himself left alone to bring up baby Frankie but Noel is a troubled soul himself and when Social Workers start threatening to take Frankie away family and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010
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The Radleys
Matt Haig
Dripping in blood, this is a story of family secrets so terrible that they shouldn’t be uncovered...Rowan and Clara think they are ordinary teenagers. They live quietly with their ordinary Mum and Dad doing all the things that their friends...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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The Legacy
Katherine Webb
July 2010 Debut of the Month.
Voted the public's favourite TV Book Club Summer Read 2010.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 11 July 2010.
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
July 2010 Editor's...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Vanishing Acts
Jodi Picoult
I cannot recommend this author highly enough. She always tackles nutty social issues, high emotional topics but refrains from being overly sentimental. She lets the power of the plot speak for itself. This involves the kidnapping of a daughter from...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 20/04/2006
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Separate Beds
Elizabeth Buchan
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The best-selling author of The Good Wife, Elizabeth Buchan, is back with Separate Beds (MichaelJoseph) in which a couple whose marriage is on the brink are offered a second chance at happiness. But will...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Before the Storm
Diane Chamberlain
May 2010 Book of the Month.
A kids’ social is moved from the youth centre to the local church for various reasons. The church goes up in flames and an autistic child leads...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/05/2010
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The Return Journey
Maeve Binchy
Twenty-one linked short stories with travel the overall theme. Featuring jet-setters to homely couples, sad people to warm folk, in fact all walks of life, they contain characters brilliantly ‘fleshed out’ in just a few words – Binchy’s hallmark –...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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Rupture
Simon Lelic
September 2010 Debut of the Month.
CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Finalist 2010.
It has been some time since I picked up a first novel that I literally couldn’t put down but this...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2010
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The Beach Hut
Veronica Henry
July 2010 Book of the Month.
This is a lovely canvas on which to tell a series of family stories over some fifty years as we follow the interactions between beach house owners...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
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The Best of Times
Penny Vincenzi
A split second in time can change so many lives. A car crash sets the
scene for the fantastic new Penny Vincenzi novel with fate changing the
course of the lives of all those involved but is it for the worse or
for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Deadly Sins
Nicholas Coleridge
A tale of envy, greed and power as old money takes on the new in a bitter feud over land – but there is much more than land at stake here – reputation, acceptance and ambition lie alongside this sad...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/09/2010
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There’s nothing like a really involving family drama and romance to take you away from your own life. And Lovereading covers the whole range, as you would expect. You can watch the lives of glamorous dynasties with dark secrets in the totally involving novels from Barbara Taylor Bradford… Empathise with women juggling careers and families in Allison Pearson’s bestsellers… Enjoy the light touch of Charlotte Bingham and the passion of Jojo Moyes…
Relax into the warm, wise stories of Elizabeth Buchan and Adriana Trigiani…Share the intelligent insights of Kate Atkinson, Joanna Harris and Maggie O’Farrell… Get new slants on universal problems from Erica James and Elizabeth Noble… Dive into huge-scale family adventures with Nicholas Evans and Sidney Sheldon…
Then there are Sally Beauman’s sexily exciting stories, Anita Shreve’s emotional tales, Alice Hoffman’s magical fables, Meera Syal’s witty accounts of multi-cultural Britain… And we’re only touching the tip of the iceberg! All our Family Drama novels are available to order online at discounted prices.
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Just a Family Affair
Veronica Henry
This is so early Jilly Cooper stuff, it’s delicious; Cotswold village life, an influential family and a clutch of over-the-top characters – you’ll love it. Sex, scandal, deceit and lots...
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Secrets She Left Behind
Diane Chamberlain
This follows directly on from Before the Storm one year later but does stand perfectly well alone – only you’ll get more from it if you have previously read...
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The Queen of New Beginnings
Erica James
Warm, witty and wise storytelling with a lovely, feel-good factor and a charming, intriguing plot. When Alice arrives at Cuckoo House to help out a friend by cooking and cleaning...
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Human Croquet
Kate Atkinson
Follow the weird and wonderful history of the Fairfax family in this thoroughly enjoyable quirk novel from Kate Atkinson. Nothing is ever predictable in Atkinson’s novels but there is always...
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Emotionally Weird
Kate Atkinson
Another story of family and telling stories. Effie and her
mother Nora (who it turns out is not her mother) tell their tales to each other
on a remote Scottish...
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The Darling Buds of May
H.E. Bates
August 2010 Guest Editor Veronica Henry on The Darling Buds of May...
The Larkins are a total contrast to the Corleones, but equally compelling. The characters and the setting are...
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Nightingale Wood
Stella Gibbons
August 2010 Guest Editor Veronica Henry on Nightingale Wood...
Stella is most famous for Cold Comfort Farm and most people are unfamiliar with her other works. This recently reissued...
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The Mother's Tale
Camilla Noli
A powerful and controversial tale of a career woman being swamped by motherhood as she copes with her demanding 14-month old girl and newly-born son. All mothers will empathise. Then...
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The Stolen Child
Laura Elliot
A moment of madness determines the fate of two families in this heart-wrenching novel. A two day old child is stolen and destroys one family while pulling another together but...
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Daddy
Danielle Steel
A heart wrenching tale of families torn apart by abandonment and death. True tear-jerk stuff as always from Danielle Steel.
A "Piece of Passion" from the publisher...
‘Poignant and moving, this classic...
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A Village Affair
Joanna Trollope
To all intents and purposes this was Joanna’s first novel and it was the start of a genre labelled ‘aga saga’ – upper-middleclass country families getting into all sorts of...
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No and Me
Delphine de Vigan
Deeply moving, this is the touching story of two teenagers from very different backgrounds whose friendship raises huge questions about what concepts of home and family really mean. Lou is...
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The Second Husband
Louise Candlish
A family drama about trust, betrayal and forgiveness. Kate and her daughter are just getting to the difficult “teenage” years and when Davis Calder moves in next door he seems...
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The Kindest Thing
Cath Staincliffe
A stunning novel that looks in to the controversial topic of assisted suicide. When a woman helps her husband to die she finds herself in the dock for murder. This...
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 27 June 2010.
An unputdownable debut following the story of three women in 1960’s Jackson, Mississippi. A story of friendship, loyalty, racism...
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The Bed I Made
Lucie Whitehouse
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 18 July 2010.
A dark tale of obsessive love and the danger a woman faces when she tries to break free. It’s...
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Ellis Island
Kate Kerrigan
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 1 August 2010.
Although the title suggests a new start in America the main character in this novel does move to the...
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Other People's Secrets
Louise Candlish
A book that will sit on your shoulder for sometime after reading it. It concerns grief, reconciliation, infidelity, marriage and family upheavals and eventual honesty all in a beautiful Italian...
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The Amateur Marriage
Anne Tyler
The story charts the marriage of a couple who are such opposites in character but who fall madly in love. As the marriage progresses with children and moving out to...
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I Heart Paris
Lindsey Kelk
July 2010 Book of the Month.
The third in this engaging series featuring Angela, a Brit in New York with a dream writing...
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The Blue Notebook
James A. Levine
This fictionalised diary of a child aged 9 sold by her parents into prostitution in Mumbai is incredibly moving, heartrending and harrowing and yet it will also have you completely...
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Ties That Bind
Catherine Deveney
July 2010 Debut of the Month.
A debut novel exploring the loneliness, secrets and silences that haunt even the most loving of families...
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The House with Blue Shutters
Lisa Hilton
A dual-time story set in occupied France and modern day, where a girl confides in an elderly neighbour and learns of wartime secrets. Beautifully written and quite mesmerising.
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Last Letter from Your Lover
Jojo Moyes
If you are looking for a thoroughly romantic read that will have you grabbing for the tissues with tears of joy and sadness then this is a must read. It’s...
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The Man Who Disappeared
Clare Morrall
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 4 July 2010.
Felix Kendall disappears one day leaving his wife, Kate, to discover that her mild-mannered, accountant husband has, in fact,...
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The Boat to Redemption
Su Tong
A coming of age novel set in China. Dongliang once held high status as the grandson of an admired revolutionary but after his ancestry is questioned his life changes dramatically....
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