Fiction - Family Life - Siblings

As featured on Radio 4's Woman's HourShortlisted for the Amazon Rising Star AwardLonglisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016Hive Rising Writer for 2016Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing eighty, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her...

Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique...

Pine, Montana, a sleepy little town where nothing ever seems to happen. But for Summer Cassidy, it's the home of the nightmare that started it all. After leaving her family, and Pine, in her rearview mirror, Summer's sudden return is a shock to everyone,...

Years ago, life separated the sisters, Lavender, Hyacinth, and Oleander Sipp. Now, it seems that life has conspired to bring them back to the place where each of their stories began, their family farm in rural Georgia. After experiencing more than a few setbacks,...

'White Lies is both an unflinching depiction of dementia, old age and family relationships, and an interesting exploration of the wealth of secrets that relatives keep from each other.' Emma Healey, Author of Elizabeth is MissingWe're similar, he and I, for the first time...

A story that explores a dysfunctional family confronting their past.Author: Lindsay Blake, Layne JamesISBN-10: 1642790842ISBN-13: 9781642790849Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2019Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d

In 1957 jobs are scarce in rural Ashland, Alabama. Bobby Higgins is facing life decisions; his family's farm struggles and threat of the draft hangs over 18-year-old males as the Cold War rumbles in the distance. Bobby heads off to boot camp, vowing to...

The journey began in Big Southern Hair & Highlights when two little girls were born in Truway, Texas. One of them stayed in Truway with her great aunt, Lottie Jean Trinity, owner of the Big Southern Hair Beauty Salon. The other one was taken...

The bond of sisters, the story of friends, the transgression of innocence, and the empowerment of hope... An inspiring work of realistic fiction portraying an Irish family and their struggle to overcome a devastating betrayal. Spanning the United States, Ireland, and England, this dramatic...

A stirring debut rife with intoxicating family secrets and dazzling insights into ourmost basic desires, Perfectly Undone offers an intimate, uncensored exploration offorgiveness and fidelity, in all its forms, as a young doctor struggles with her sister'sdeath--and the role she played in it--while her...

A lyrical and thought provoking novel perfect for book clubs, The Orphan Sister by Gwendolyn Gross questions the intricacies of nature and nurture, and the exact shape of sisterly love... Clementine Lord is not an orphan. She just feels like one sometimes. One of...

Weaving a bright passion with the dark currents of past secrets, bestselling author Linda Lael Miller tells the tale of star-crossed lover bound by Desire and Destiny. Devastated by the loss of her father, lovely Brynne McFarren returned to the Washington coastal town of...

From the internationally bestselling "queen of contemporary Irish popular fiction" (The Sunday Times, London), a heartwarming novel following three generations of women as they each learn that it's never too late to live your life to the fullest. Marie-Claire has just made the shocking...

At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland follows the Hess family in the years after World War I, as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle...

A haunting story of family ties and wartime secrets. Three generations of the Tremain family have occupied the idyllic cliffside cottage on the Cornish coast. There's Fred, the country doctor who built this house for his wife, Martha; their daughter Anna, an esteemed lawyer,...

A moving, evocative tale of love, grief, and sisterhood from the author of the "brilliant, tender, and riveting" (John Dufresne, author of I Don't Like Where This Is Going) The Winters in Bloom. She can hear the music in people's souls. Mary Beth and...

Welcome to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where social rank is determined by the age of your money and the dryness of your martini. The new girl in town, Emma Harris, must prove herself hip to the rigid rules of adolescent conformity. The quest for cool,...

Georgia "Peachy" Archer always thought she was happy with her choices in life: quitting college, marrying young, raising two boys in the same small town where she grew up. But just as Peachy's life is beginning to settle into a careful routine, her sister's...

"This one's a winner." --People Vance Lake is broke, jobless, and recently dumped. Taking refuge with his twin brother, Craig, on Cape Cod, he unwittingly finds himself in the middle of a crisis that would test even the most cohesive family, let alone the...

Growing up in a small New England town, 14 year-old Donna Milewski had all she needed: a grandmother, Babci, whose fragrant cooking filled their home...her mother, Helen, who lovingly stitched outfits...and Adam, the most wonderful father a daughter could imagine, who dreamed she could...

Kurt is a disillusioned case worker struggling in an under-resourced child protection system. When he takes on the case of Gecko, a sixteen-year-old with a traumatic past and a shaky future, he is determined to make a difference. But the best of intentions are...

A sweeping transcontinental novel of secrets and lies buried within a single family Thirty-two-year-old Gabriel Glover arrives in St. Petersburg to find his mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin sister, Isabella, arrange the funeral without contacting their father,...

A moving novel of sisterhood and finding yourself tells the story of a newly engaged woman who decides to use her engagement party as a way to reconcile her estranged sisters--much to their chagrin. Courtney, Norah, and Raine Cassel are as different as three...

In this "witty and stylish" novel, two sisters take on modern relationships -- and find a suitor in a jokingly arranged marriage (Holly Peterson, bestselling author of The Manny). When Ava Nickerson was a child, her mother jokingly betrothed her to a friend's son,...

Family secrets reverberate for generations in one of the "Best Novels of 2011" (Kirkus Reviews) Growing up without a mother in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, Bertie Fischer and her older sister, Mabel, have only each other--with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in...

In a town she personifies, Ouisie Pepper wrestles with her own defiance. Desperate to become the wife and mother her husband Hap demands, Ouisie pours over a simple book about womanhood, constantly falling short, but determined to improve. Through all that self-improvement, Ouisie carries...

This is the large print edition. A READ WITH JENNA - TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICKNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times - Time - Marie Claire - Elle - Buzzfeed - Huffington Post - Good Housekeeping...

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick An Instant New York Times BestsellerNamed a Best Book of the Month by Goodreads - Lithub - Refinery29 - InStyle - HelloGiggles - Real Simple - Parade - PureWow - Bustle"A richly observed novel, both...

In this poignant spiritual novel that echoes the emotional resonance of The Glass Castle and Running with Scissors, an unexpected reunion at a remote lakeside camp in the Maine woods offers the possibility of reconciliation and healing for a man and his fractured family.For...

The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy--a paean to the mystery, tragedy and wonder of life.Trying his best to weasel out of an appointment with the neurologist his only...

Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Award and the Writer's League of Texas Fiction Award - An Indie Next Selection - An Austin American-Statesman Selects BookA powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and belonging, Migratory Animals centers on...

In a stunning follow-up to her best-selling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh′s second novel, BAKER TOWERS, is a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Bakerton is a company town, built on...

Big Brother is a striking novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity from Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed author the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed high-end cabinetmaker, now spurns...

"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." --NewYork Times "We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram When Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic...

"Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I've read in a long time."--Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and...

"A genuinely appealing and absorbing read." --Publishers Weekly"Her talent is a gift to us all." --New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth PhillipsA classic summer favorite, Summer's End by Kathleen Gilles Seidel is a story of family bonds and entanglements, brimming with drama, love,...

"A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed"--Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners "Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this...

A smart, chilling look at women's lives in the tradition of Single White Female, What My Best Friend Did by Lucy Dawson is an intricate story, taut and thrilling, that will keep readers guessing. The author of The Other Lover, Dawson explores what happens...

"[A] well-crafted and cunning debut novel...a testament to the resilience of the human spirit."--Publishers WeeklyThe Summer We Fell Apart by newcomer Robin Antalek is a poignant, funny, and totally engrossing novel of family disasters and sibling rivalry--and it marks the debut of a pitch-perfect...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me, Love Walked In, and Falling Together comes a captivating novel about friendship, family, second chances, and the redemptive power of love.In all her life, Eustacia "Taisy" Cleary has given her heart to only...

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house...

Reeling from the loss of her mother, plagued with a bad case of writer's block (and don't even talk about those extra twenty pounds), Renata DeChavannes feels as though everything is just plain wrong. And that was before the tabloids caught her sweetheart, filmmaker...

The lives of the three McBroom sisters of Tallulah, Tennessee, were tangled before the eldest, Eleanor, discovered their mother hanging from the Venetian blinds—and the years have done little to comb out the knots. Now a drunken encounter with the midnight train has left...

A poignant and provactive novel of truth, race, and religions. Author: Patricia JonesISBN-10: 0060509651ISBN-13: 9780060509651Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2004Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.14h x 5.48w x 0.94dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.4Point Value: 22Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 88824 / Color of FamilyReview Citation(s):...

'A fresh and hilarious debut about family in all its brilliant, messy glory... You'll laugh, you'll cry' Sunday Times bestseller Dawn O'Porter'Witty and heartfelt' HEATA missing sister. A broken heart.A whole lot of trouble...Rilla is getting married. Except she isn't. She's running away -...

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst in this "masterful novel" that "peers into the dark heart of America" (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day)...

Get to know the fan-favorite MacKade brothers in these two irresistible stories! The Return of Rafe MacKade Ten years after disappearing from Antietam, Maryland, the bad boy has come home. Cleaned up, successful and still dangerously good-looking, Rafe MacKade plans to open a bed-and-breakfast...

Marissa Raffaelo-Moretta is used to shouldering the burden. As the middle child, she's played the mediator role for longer than she cares to admit. As a mother, she's taken on the exhausting task of primary caregiver. And as a daughter and nurse practitioner, she's...

Emerald Hawks, an Appalachian mountain girl, has inherited the Healer's abilities passed down through her mother's generations. Emerald loves her mountain home, and is learning the Healer's ways when her father uproots their large family and moves north to find work. Shy and reticent...

Book two of The Gold Series . . .Once she was lost, but now she's found.1981-Kitty and Claude Fisher have built a good life after leaving the small, dusty town of Goldfield, Nevada. Yet, as her fiftieth birthday approaches, Kitty can't help but feel...