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From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question every sibling has asked themselves: can parents really have favorites?
Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three girls, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it's with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside to spend a week celebrating Vivienne's seventieth birthday. But when Patrick's reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals who his favorite daughter is, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it will send through the family. Decades-old, unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked.
Be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts, no one's secrets are safe as still-tender family wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers. In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us again and again just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Fran Littlewood is the author of Amazing Grace Adams, which was an instant New York Times bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick. She has an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. Before her MA, she worked as a journalist, including a stint at the Times. She lives in London with her husband and their three daughters.
Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three girls, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it's with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside to spend a week celebrating Vivienne's seventieth birthday. But when Patrick's reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals who his favorite daughter is, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it will send through the family. Decades-old, unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked.
Be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts, no one's secrets are safe as still-tender family wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers. In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us again and again just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Fran Littlewood is the author of Amazing Grace Adams, which was an instant New York Times bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick. She has an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. Before her MA, she worked as a journalist, including a stint at the Times. She lives in London with her husband and their three daughters.