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´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 BIG LITTLE LIES.

All happy families are alike. But happy can be complicated...

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´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

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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. Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of THE HUSBAND´S SECRET and TRUE LITTLE LIES

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Frankel, Laurie

Laurie Frankel writes novels (reads novels, teaches other people to write novels, raises a small person who reads and might someday write novels) in Seattle, Washington. She and her husband and daughter live on a nearly vertical hill from which Laurie can watch three different bridges when she´s staring out her windows between words.

Laurie´s earlier novels are The Atlas of Love and Goodbye For Now. This Is How It Always Is is her third novel.

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