Product Description
A Family Matter
Author: Claire Lynch
Format: Paperback
Winner of the Nero Book Awards Gold Prize Book of the Year 2025
No one need know about her mother's deviation
A mother following her heart
A father with the law on his side
A child caught in the middle
'I'll be thinking about it forever' — Barbara Kingsolver
'Powerful ...smart and often heartbreaking' — Guardian
'A brilliant book... Full of heart, sympathy and sadness' — Sara Pascoe
'I was caught up from the first page' — Clare Chambers
'I am in awe... a must read' — Jennie Godfrey
'Beautifully written' — Good Housekeeping, Book of the Month
1982 Dawn is a young wife and mother hemmed in by village life. Then Hazel appears like a torch in the dark. Their attraction is instant and suddenly Dawn's world is more joyful, and more complicated, than she ever expected.
2022 Maggie has always lived with an absence where her mother should be. Her father never speaks of her and it feels impossible to ask. Then an official letter arrives with news from the past, and Maggie must face a truth far bigger than just her family's secret.
At once heart-breaking and hopeful, A Family Matter asks how we might heal from the wounds of the past, and what we might learn from them.
'A beautiful and tender exploration of parental love, prejudice and the things we carry' — Rachel Joyce
Goodreads Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2025
Readers Are in Love with a Family Matter***
'I would rate this 10 stars if I could'
'Utterly brilliant, I was captivated from page one'
'This book had my whole heart and more'
'A beautiful, heartbreaking, important book'
About the Author
Claire Lynch has spent her career teaching literature in universities. She is the author of Small: On Motherhoods. She lives in Windsor with her wife and three daughters.
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