This Is How It Always Is: The warm and uplifting novel about a family keeping a big secret
by Laurie Frankel
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Pub Date 9 Feb 2017 | Archive Date 16 Feb 2017
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Description
'A very special book about a family with a secret. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.' Liane Moriarty, No. 1 bestselling author of THE HUSBAND'S SECRET
Laurie Frankel's THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS the 'fascinating story of a thoroughly modern family and the giant, multifaceted love that binds them... Sparkles with wit and wisdom' (Maria Semple). Perfect for readers of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES and THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY.
This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them.
This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated.
This is how children change...and then change the world.
This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess.
When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.
Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes.
Laurie Frankel's THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it's about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don't get to keep them forever.
'An intelligent, life-affirming, emotionally charged story' Prima
A Note From the Publisher
http://www.lauriefrankel.net/
Advance Praise
‘I was lucky enough to receive an advance reading copy of this very special book about a family with a secret. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think. Preorder your copy now’
Liane Moriarty, author of The Husband’s Secret
‘A lively and fascinating story of a thoroughly modern family and the giant, multifaceted love that binds them. This Is How It Always Is sparkles with wit and wisdom’
Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette
‘Heart-warming and funny I found this both unputdownable and enlightening. I’m so glad I’ve read it, I know so much more about life now.’ Katie Fforde
‘Uplifting, thought-provoking, unique, beautiful… A total joy’ Adele Parks
‘With emotional acuity, admirable bravery, utter compassion, and complete understanding, [Laurie Frankel] has created a family attempting to forge a path through one of life’s most mystifying challenges: how to define what it is that makes your child who he or she is: unique, beloved, and whole. This is a novel everyone should read. It’s brilliant. It’s bold. And it’s time’
Elizabeth George, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Banquet of Consequences
‘A beguiling tale of a sprawling, loving, ever-changing, unconventional, and yet completely typical modern family as they make their way through a world with no easy answers and no magic solutions. How does Frankel pull off such a story? With great humour and candour. With a powerful narrative voice, and a forthrightness so compelling, we are drawn into the family circle to laugh and cry with them, and to ponder issues great and small. An intimate, wonderfully moving novel that is especially relevant in today’s world’
Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in the Rain
‘One of those very rare, special novels that examines the way we live—in our homes, in our families, in our bodies—with an astonishing balance of humour, complexity, and above all, kindness’
Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being
‘For me what made the book so compelling was that it was based on her own child’s reality. It wasn’t jumping on the bandwagon of an ‘on-trend’ topic or imagining things it would be hard to really get to know if you hadn’t experienced them. It was real and that shone through.’ Cari Rosen, Gransnet
‘Wonderful’ Sheila O’Reilly, Dulwich Books
Marketing Plan
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781472241580 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
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