Did You Ever Have A Family
The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.On the eve of her daughter’s wedding, June Reid’s life is completely devastated...
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The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about a circle of people who find solace in the least likely of places as they cope with a horrific tragedy.On the eve of her daughter’s wedding, June Reid’s life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter&am
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781476798172 (1476798176)
ASIN: 1476798176
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Read this after Fates and Furies when Lauren Groff thanked her agent, Bill Clegg, and I remembered this book on my to-read pile. Have wanted to read this one since the day I bought it, the cover was just so perfect. The book inside, not surprisingly, was just as good.
A quick and compelling read, Did You Ever Have a Family is a well-rendered story of tragedy and family. Told from alternating perspectives, this novel is an easy read and does not grow stale. Perhaps the voices of the individual characters lack some originality—the pot smoking kid sounds a bit like ...
Did You Ever Have A Family, Bill Clegg This book surely packs a wallop. It will be the rare person who will not be moved by the introspective examination of the psyches of these diverse characters as they each experienced the same horrific tragedy in their own way and worked to climb back out into t...
4.5 stars #Didyoueverhaveafamily @BillClegg1 In one night June loses her whole family when her gas stove blows up. Her ex-husband, her boyfriend, her daughter and her daughter's fiancee. June just happens to be in the back yard because her and her boyfriend are having a little argument and she's n...