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A Not Quite Perfect Family
- Author
- Claire Sandy
- Narrator
- Bea Holland
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 6 April 2017
- Run Time
- 12 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Funny, feisty and all-too-true, A Not Quite Perfect Family by Claire Sandy is for anyone who loves their family so much they’d just like a weekend away from them.
Fern Carlile has a lot on her plate. It’s a good thing she loves her big, imperfectly perfect family, because she’s the one who washes their pants, de-fleas the dog and runs her own business. A hearty meal is the one thing that brings the Carliles together – but over the course of a year, the various courses also pull them apart.
Around the table sits an eight-year-old militant feminist, a pair of teenage accidental parents, and a cantankerous OAP. Fern’s husband needs an extra seat for his spectacular midlife crisis.
Will Fern’s marriage be over by the time coffee is served? Perhaps she’ll give in and have the hot new dish that looks so tempting. Decisions, decisions . . .
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A great summer read
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A warm and amusing easy read, full of gentle suspense and south-west sunshine
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Details
- Author
- Claire Sandy
- Narrator
- Bea Holland
- Duration
- 12 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 April 2017
- ISBN
- 9781509844623
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
Funny, feisty and all-too-true, A Not Quite Perfect Family by Claire Sandy is for anyone who loves their family so much they’d just like a weekend away from them.Fern Carlile has a lot on her plate. It’s a good thing she loves her big, imperfectly perfect family, because she’s the one who washes their pants, de-fleas the dog and runs her own business. A hearty meal is the one thing that brings the Carliles together – but over the course of a year, the various courses also pull them apart.Around the table sits an eight-year-old militant feminist, a pair of teenage accidental parents, and a cantankerous OAP. Fern’s husband needs an extra seat for his spectacular midlife crisis.Will Fern’s marriage be over by the time coffee is served? Perhaps she’ll give in and have the hot new dish that looks so tempting. Decisions, decisions . . .
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