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What the Family Needed
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ISBN13: 9780733636295
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: Jul 26 2016
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?
What if every now and then, the people in your family woke up with a special power? Over the span of 30 years we are invited into the secrets of one very unique family, from a mystified teenager to an over-tired night nurse to a conflicted exile. The surprising strengths they each find show them how to change their lives - and what the family needs in order to survive.
A wonderful novel: imaginative, intelligent, empathetic... Like a cross between The Corrections and The Slap. - Sydney Morning Herald
To tell you the narrative concerns a family whose members have superpowers is only to graze the surface of a moving and beautifully realised meditation on what it is to be an ordinary human being. - The Australian
Grade: A... At once magical and very normal, a wishful fantasy about the strength it can take to love one's family members well. - Entertainment Weekly
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