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Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf.

It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their lovemaking, and has become a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later the book is set to be reissued but the lives of the Mellow family are no longer the same: their children grapple with complicated 21st century problems and the iconic couple''s perfect marriage has not run as smoothly as everyone has assumed...



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The best novel I have read in years... a cast-iron masterpiece -- David Baddiel * The Times *
Funny, moving and wise, The Position is a joy to read * Daily Mail *
Meg Wolitzer is a fine, funny and wise writer * Independent on Sunday *
Hilarious * Mail on Sunday *
Her writing is sympathetic, measured, gently ironic...an entertaining and persuasive novel about a family and its inevitable diffusion * Daily Telegraph *

The Position

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9780099485056, 978-0099485056
      ISBN10: 0099485052
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf.

      It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their lovemaking, and has become a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later the book is set to be reissued but the lives of the Mellow family are no longer the same: their children grapple with complicated 21st century problems and the iconic couple''s perfect marriage has not run as smoothly as everyone has assumed...



      Trade Review
      The best novel I have read in years... a cast-iron masterpiece -- David Baddiel * The Times *
      Funny, moving and wise, The Position is a joy to read * Daily Mail *
      Meg Wolitzer is a fine, funny and wise writer * Independent on Sunday *
      Hilarious * Mail on Sunday *
      Her writing is sympathetic, measured, gently ironic...an entertaining and persuasive novel about a family and its inevitable diffusion * Daily Telegraph *

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