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IT LL EASILY BE ONE OF MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR Hannah Beckerman

It s a warm book and a touching one. And did I mention it s funny? Just read it. You ll see  The Times

Funny, tender and sad  Sunday Express

If you liked Meg Mason s Sorrow and Bliss, you ll love this novel  Good Housekeeping

One of the richest explorations of family dysfunction I ve read the i newspaper

Shades of Fleabag in this smart, funny drama  Mail on Sunday

An enjoyably bittersweet novel about a dysfunctional modern family  Independent

Razor-sharp  Observer

One of the funniest novels you ll read this year  Guardian

THE BOOK THAT YOU WON T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN

For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is also their older brother Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with.

There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of, but which has shaped everything . . .

As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they d intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must decide at last whether life is really anything more than (as Hanna would have it) a tragedy with a few hilarious moments.

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.