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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All the Missing Girls Megan Miranda August 2017 Book of the Month A clever, suspense-filled story told in reverse, from day 15 through to day 1, and boy does the premise work! Nicolette returns home after a letter from her dementia-ravaged father suggests an answer to... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2017 
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A Time of Love and Tartan Alexander McCall Smith August 2017 Book of the Month With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its twelfth season in the Scotsman, making it the longest running serial novel ever. What... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2017
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Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell August 2017 Book of the Month THEN - She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. NOW - it's been ten years... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/07/2017
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The Party Elizabeth Day The party is where it all unravels and where the dark secret between rich, aristocratic Ben and poor, middle-class Martin is exposed. We are kept very much in the dark about the secret until nearly the end of the book.... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Child Fiona Barton Distant threads spin ever closer to create a compelling, emotional, and dramatic story. Set in 2012, with links to the 1970’s and 80’s, several women, for very different reasons find revisiting a tragedy from the past may alter the very... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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The Good Daughter Karin Slaughter Gosh, what a story this is, dramatic, powerful, and so incredibly addictive. ‘The Good Daughter’ is a standalone novel from Karin Slaughter. 28 years ago, as murder tore apart their family in a small town in North Georgia, one girl... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Don't Close Your Eyes Holly Seddon A convincing, powerful, and dramatic psychological thriller. Twins Robin and Sarah are living separate lives, each face their own difficulties, yet danger beckons and life is about to get a lot more complicated. The story spins from Robin to Sarah,... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/07/2017
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Give Me the Child Melanie McGrath August 2017 Debut of the Month A provocative tale that creeps over skin and worms its way into thoughts. A knock at the door one night reveals Cat’s husband has an 11 year old daughter Cat knew nothing about, then... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/07/2017
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The Postcard Fern Britton Penny is a TV producer who, when filming in Cornwall, met and fell in love with the local vicar. Now, five years and a small child later, life is not treating her well. Coupled with her present hopelessness is her... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2017
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Little Deaths Emma Flint Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017. A thoroughly perturbing, provocative, yet riveting read. Single parent Ruth wakes one morning to find her... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2017
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Cartes Postales from Greece Victoria Hislop Three years ago Cardiff born Ellie moved into a small block of twelve flats in Kensal Rise, London. Her life is dull. She does tele-ad sales for a trade mag and then suddenly she gets postcards from Greece addressed to... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinborough Oh my word, this book is devious, twisted, and an absolute knockout! The story, revolving around love, passion, suspicion, and deceit, kept me teetering on a razor sharp wire of uncertainty. Sarah Pinborough’s writing is sublime, it’s shrewd, artful, cunning,... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2017
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The Lemon Tree Cafe Cathy Bramley When Rosie Featherstone finds herself unexpectedly jobless, the offer to help her beloved Italian grandmother out at the Lemon Tree Cafe - a little slice of Italy nestled in the rolling hills of Derbyshire - feels like the perfect way... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2017
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Good Me Bad Me Ali Land Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017. Ooh, this truly is a fabulously captivating and unpredictable tale, and it kept me clinging to the very edge of my seat. Annie’s mother is a serial killer, Annie informs... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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You Said Forever Susan Lewis A gripping, emotional and tension-filled family drama. Charlotte and Anthony live and work on an artisan vineyard in New Zealand with their three children. They may be in paradise, yet the actions of eight year old Chloe begin to seriously... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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My Absolute Darling Gabriel Tallent At 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use of every gun on her wall; That chaos is coming and only the strong will survive it; That her daddy loves her more than anything else in this world. And he'll do whatever... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/08/2017
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The People at Number 9 Felicity Everett Solid, surburban couple with two boys at the local school have their safe, perhaps a little monotonous, life disrupted by the arrival of an artistic golden couple next door. All glitter and shine, oozing charisma and chasing fun, they dazzle... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2017
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The Darkness Within Lisa Stone July 2017 Debut of the Month. A simply told, yet dramatic and readable tale about a young man whose behaviour changes beyond all recognition after receiving a heart transplant. This is the... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Woman in the Wood Lesley Pearse An engaging, poignant and moving family tale set in the 1960’s on the south coast of England. 15 year old twins Maisy and Duncan are sent to live in the New Forest with their disapproving grandmother. After the difficulties of... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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Close Enough to Touch Colleen Oakley This truly uplifting, life-affirming treat is at once a whimsical love story, and a funny, thought-provoking meditation on the nature of closeness.Jubilee Jenkins suffers from an excruciating condition. She's allergic to the touch of other humans and has... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2017
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Woman of State Simon Berthon July 2017 Debut of the Month and eBook of the Month. A fascinating, intelligent and penetrating political thriller set in Belfast, Dublin and London. In 1991 Maire steps into the centre of a storm that will... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Best Laid Plans Kathy Lette July 2017 Book of the Month. Gosh, what a funny, emotional, romp of a story this is. Lucy begins her tale with the moment she gets arrested for picking up an undercover... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Greatest Hits Laura Barnett 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 long absence from the industry. Cass Wheeler has been a massive music star since... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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The Dinner Herman Koch This is one of those books like The Slap and We Need to Talk About Kevin where no one is likeable and the outcome difficult to predict. Here the family drama is related during a posh restaurant dinner... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2017
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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 Lost Girl Carol Drinkwater July 2017 eBook of the Month. 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... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/06/2017
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Mudbound Hillary Jordan Now a major motion picture starring Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund and Mary J. Blige. When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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The Horseman Tim Pears This begins The West Country Trilogy starting in 1911. It follows two years in the life of young Leo as he skips school as often as he can to help his father, brothers and cousin on one of the six... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old Hendrik Groen Poignant, moving and funny, I chuckled my way through this delightful (but no longer secret) diary from the rather lovable Hendrik Groen. Hendrik has reached the age where his address book is depressingly empty and his life has become an... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The River at Night Erica Ferencik July 2017 Book 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 in Maine where, inevitably, their... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/06/2017
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