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'Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real' SARAH WATERS
'Rambunctiously funny' THE TIMES, Book of the Year
'I can't think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY
From the Polari Prize-winning author of IN AT THE DEEP…Why read it?
1 author picked Nuclear Family as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this because it takes something that should be simple – an all-the-family Christmas present of DNA testing kits - and turns it into a grenade rolled across the tinselled table.
I'm fascinated by families who crack on that things are rosy when it's clear to anyone looking on that there's big trouble in paradise. Kate Davies writes that trouble beautifully: the jokes, the awkwardness, the desperate urge to keep a smile on your face when normal didn't so much leave the room as move off-grid.
I loved how funny this book was about something genuinely destabilising.
From Mo's list on how we all keep insisting we’re absolutely fine.
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