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‘Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky’

Where do you go if you can’t feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can’t fathom who you become? In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, in doing so charts a stormy course into the crucible of the self.

Selected from The Pier Falls, The Red House and A Spot of Bother.

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Family: Vintage Minis

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 04/04/2019
      ISBN13: 9781784874063, 978-1784874063
      ISBN10: 178487406X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ‘Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky’

      Where do you go if you can’t feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can’t fathom who you become? In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, in doing so charts a stormy course into the crucible of the self.

      Selected from The Pier Falls, The Red House and A Spot of Bother.

      VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

      A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

      Discover the in the Vintage Minis ‘Head Space’ series:

      Recovery by Helen Macdonald
      Therapy by Stephen Grosz



      Trade Review
      Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book. * Stylist *
      Literature for the Twitter generation ... there is clarity in the distillation * Big Issue *

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