Family Drama Books
There’s nothing hits home quite like a home hit by tragedy, conflict or drama. These are the great hand-picked books that tell those stories.
Featured Books
Books of the Month
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Peculiar Ground Lucy Hughes-Hallett June 2017 Book of the Month. A huge book both in scope and length, it begins with the journals of a landscape gardener building a great park in 1663 then moves to... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/05/2017 
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Greatest Hits Laura Barnett June 2017 Book of the Month. A powerfully lyrical day-in-the-life portrait of a successful singer-songwriter reflecting on the ebbs and flows of her life as she prepares her Greatest Hits release after... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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The River at Night Erica Ferencik June 2017 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month. Four middle-aged women and long-time friends with a checkered history embark for their yearly reunion meeting on a whitewater rafting expedition down the Allagash river... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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Exquisite Sarah Stovell June 2017 Book of the Month. Wow! This is a cracking psychological thriller. Told in first person from two different viewpoints it causes you to question the reliability of both women. Smart,... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Letting Go A True Story of Murder, Loss and Survival by Rachel Nickell's Son Alex Hanscombe June 2017 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. A truly touching, considered, and frank life story. In 1992 Rachel Nickell was sexually assaulted and stabbed 49 times in front of her nearly three year... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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The Weight of Him Ethel Rohan June 2017 Debut of the Month. There was a family of six, three boys aged 17, 15 and 9, and one girl, 12, with a hard-working, frazzled mother and a grossly obese father, Billy, weighing 28... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Ginny Moon Benjamin Ludwig June 2017 Debut of the Month. A dazzling debut about a fostered autistic girl’s poignant search for her Forever Home, and her acute need to be needed. Truly a gem that will satiate an abundance of... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Obsession Amanda Robson A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Two seemingly happy couples: Rob and Carly, Jenni and Craig. But one fateful day, one happens to ask her husband who else he might prefer to be with and unwittingly unleashes... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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The Forever House Veronica Henry Gorgeously affectionate, loving, and generous, this is a read to escape into and really enjoy. Hunters Moon is a forever home, yet the current occupants are selling up and when Belinda takes on the sale, she finds herself becoming emotionally... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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The Friend Dorothy Koomson Oh what a thrilling and gloriously dramatic tale this is! A violent attack on a parent takes place within the grounds of a private school in Brighton, just days later, Cece moves into the area, her two youngest start at... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2017
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The New Mrs Clifton Elizabeth Buchan At the end of WWII Gus brings back an emotionally damaged German wife, Krista, to his family home on Clapham Common, London. In a bombed terrace his house remains unscathed yet possibly unstable. His two sisters are at home, one... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Two by Two Nicholas Sparks Russell rises swiftly into a high-powered job until it all comes crashing round him and he now has to spend time at home so there is a slight role reversal while he looks after their 5-year old daughter and his... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Break in Case of Emergency Jessica Winter A wryly amusing, observational story, brushing compassionately against the pitfalls of modern life. Jen is in her early 30’s, she lives with her husband in New York, she dreams of painting, of having a baby, yet finds herself trapped in... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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About Last Night ... Catherine Alliott Masterfully told in typical Catherine Alliott fashion, Catherine once again delivers a belly full of laughter as Molly, the key protagonist, makes her life a whole load more complicated and messy, long after the unexpected death of her husband, as... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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This Must be the Place Maggie O'Farrell Award-winning novelist Maggie O’Farrell returns with her latest breathtaking novel. This Must Be The Place is a story about journeys, it’s about discovering who you are and where you’re meant to be. Daniel Sullivan is leaving on a journey, he... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters Nadiya Hussain A lovely warm and joyful squeeze of a read. When a family bombshell hits, four sisters each tell their own story. We get to know Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae, and because their lives revolve around each other, we not... Format: Hardback - Released: 12/01/2017
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The Invitation Lucy Foley A sophisticated, expressive, and emotional story set in the glamorous Italian film promotion world of the 1950’s. Hal and Stella meet at a party, an immediate connection flares into life, yet the spectre of war holds both in a devastating... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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The Nest Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney June 2017 Debut of the Month. A thought-provoking and wittily pointed debut, about the life and loves of the Plumb family. There are four siblings at the centre of this novel, Leo causes uproar when a... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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A New Map of Love Abi Oliver An entertaining and charmingly poignant portrait of a provincial widower’s burgeoning new life following the death of his wife. It’s 1964, and 57 year-old antiques dealer George has lost his wife after they’ve lived a contented sort of life for... Format: Hardback - Released: 20/04/2017
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Island of Secrets Patricia Wilson June 2017 Debut of the Month. Right from the start we realise this is a Montague/Capulet situation; a feud between families, in this case from Crete, that spills blood only here our... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/05/2017
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The Lost Girl Carol Drinkwater A mesmerising, haunting, and extraordinarily relevant yet beautifully evocative read. Kurtiz arrives in Paris after a sighting of her missing daughter, as the tale begins to unfurl, humanity at its very best and worst is revealed in several time frames.... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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Chance Developments Unexpected Love Stories Alexander McCall Smith Explore in ‘Chance Developments’ five charming and poignant short stories. I absolutely adore the premise for this little book and the cover just invites you in. Alexander McCall Smith has imagined a background tale to the five black and white... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/05/2017
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Under a Sardinian Sky Sara Alexander An expressive and heartfelt relationship tale set in a gloriously evocative 1950’s Sardinia. Carmela is engaged to the son of the town’s wealthiest family, however finds herself questioning his overbearing nature when she meets a Captain from the nearby army... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/04/2017
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All the Good Things Clare Fisher All the Good Things is a story about redemption and hope for fans of Nathan Filer, Stephen Kelman and Emma Healey. What if you did a very bad thing...but that wasn't the end of the story. Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Hot Milk Deborah Levy Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike and utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern and timeless. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Bridget Jones's Baby The Diaries Helen Fielding Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2017. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated, however, by a... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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My Cousin Rachel Film Tie in Daphne Du Maurier, Roger Michell This is du Maurier’s tenth novel and only the second where she had a male narrator. Philip Ashley is young and inexperienced in the ways of the world and this is the perspective taken on the story as it unfolds.... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Himself Jess Kidd June 2017 Debut of the Month. Longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017. Dublin-wise, orphaned young man goes in search of his birth mother. He has a photograph with a note on the... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Barkskins Annie Proulx For the Wolf Hall readership, this is a huge historical novel to immerse yourself in. A dramatic, violent, absorbing, long read for which you need to put aside serious time to devour. You will find it difficult to put... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2017
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The Honeymoon Tina Seskis Oh my, this is intense, shocking, and an absolute winner. Jemma is on an island in the Maldives, her husband of just one week is missing, is he alive, or has the unthinkable happened? Tina Seskis encourages an almost unbearable... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Dead to Me Lesley Pearse Another dramatic and engagingly expressive historical novel by Lesley Pearse. Set before and during the Second World War, we follow Ruby and Verity during the ups and downs of their young lives. Ruby has a less than auspicious beginning, while... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2017
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