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Now a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick. 'The literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler' Observer'A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory' Madeline Miller'Should appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Emma Straub and Jennifer Egan' Sunday Times'The perfect, engrossing holiday read' Red LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory' Madeline Miller 'The perfect, engrossing holiday read' RED 'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler' Observer 'As good as books come' Telegraph 'I loved this book' Bryony Gordon MEET THE SORENSON FAMILY MARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married to DAVID, who's pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved another person. WENDY, their eldest, a cause for concern, soothes herself with drink after being widowed young, while VIOLET, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother, is disturbed by the reappearance of a son placed for adoption fifteen years earlier. LIZA, a professor, is pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves and GRACE, their dawdling youngest daughter, lives a lie that no one in her family suspects.