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Family Drama Books
Our high-quality Family Drama selection offers the heart-breaking and heart-warming conflicts and dramas directly from the hearth, telling the stories of these families that have been struck by tragedy, conflict and drama and their struggle to survive intact.
Books of the Month
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Letters to Iris Elizabeth Noble April 2018 Book of the Month 'A gloriously uplifting story about love in all its forms from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of The Reading Group and Things I Want My Daughters to Know.' This author has certainly... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2018 
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The Story of Our Lives Helen Warner A dynamic, dramatic, and deliciously entertaining tale exposing friendship flaws, secrets and lies. Sophie, Emily, Amy, and Melissa go away for a weekend break once a year, and we see how their lives change for both better and worse between... Format: Hardback - Released: 08/02/2018
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A Country Escape Katie Fforde February 2018 Book of the Month. A deliciously readable, entertaining and enjoyable novel from Katie Fforde. Fran leaves her life behind for a dilapidated farm in the Cotswolds, she has just one year to make it a success. I always... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/02/2018
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Coming Home Fern Britton Just gorgeous. I do love a feel-good read, add biting realism and aching intensity, and you have a winner in your hands. Ella and Henry have a deep and loving connection to Cornwall, when their grandmother dies the past throws... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/02/2018
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The Year That Changed Everything Cathy Kelly Uplifting and delightful, The Year That Changed Everything is another gorgeous read from Cathy Kelly. Three women have three milestone birthdays on the same day, they don’t know each other, yet a featherlight connection binds them together. In one day,... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/02/2018
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The Madonna of The Mountains Elise Valmorbida March 2018 Book of the Month “To believe, to obey, to fight” is the new prayer of Mussolini’s Italy in 1936. We are in Fosso, a town in the rural district of Veneto on the fertile plains where food is... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/03/2018
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The Cows Dawn O'Porter April 2018 Debut of the Month Oh my word, this is an eyebrow raising, mouth openingly good read. A contemporary tale about three women, muddling and battling their way through this world as best they can. Emotional growing pains can... Format: Paperback - Released: 22/03/2018
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Sal Mick Kitson March 2018 Debut of the Month Just gorgeous… this is an emotional and quite, quite beautiful read. After a particularly traumatic time at home, 13 year old Sal and her younger sister Peppa escape into the wilds of Scotland. Sal... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2018
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The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes The new novel from the author of The Keeper of Lost Things Ruth Hogan From the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan, comes another irresistible novel of unexpected friendships, second chances ... and dark secrets. Gloriously gorgeous in every way. After tragedy crashed into her life, Masha often sits on... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/05/2018
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Keep You Safe Melissa Hill 'If you like Jodi Picoult try Melissa Hill' Woman and Home Good mother or bad ... who decides?' With clever writing, this provocative tale is just so, so readable. Rosie can’t have her childhood vaccinations due to a medical condition,... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/04/2018
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Seven Days of Us Francesca Hornak Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018 For fans of David Nicholls and Richard Curtis movies, this is an observational, tender and heart-warming drama about the trials and tribulations of spending a week with your family at Christmas. What... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/10/2017
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Her Mother's Daughter Alice Fitzgerald Two voices: a damaged mother, Josephine, remembering her past and failing to cope with the present, and her 10 year old daughter Claire, on the cusp of puberty, who takes good care of her younger brother Thomas. The publisher tells... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2018
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Last Letter from Istanbul Lucy Foley Just gorgeous, this is a story to shine a light in the darkness, even in moments of despair. Constantinople in 1921 is a confusing, often frightening place to be, in the first few pages, two reports from 1918, perfectly sum... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/03/2018
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Dead Letters Caite Dolan-Leach A dramatic and oh so readable family tale, with enough tension playing through the pages to sink a battleship. Two years ago Ava vowed never to speak to her twin sister Zelda again, when an email arrives declaring Zelda dead,... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2018
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The Great Cornish Getaway Fern Britton This delightful Quick Read from Sunday Times bestselling novelist Fern Britton is full of her usual warmth and wit. It is the perfect way to treat yourself to a gorgeous escape to Cornwall. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2018
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