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By the author of worldwide bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club: you can´t choose your family, but they can make choices for you. Big, life-defining choices. Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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Rosemary´s young, just at college, and she´s decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we´re not going to tell you too much either: you´ll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.
Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There´s something unique about Rosemary´s sister, Fern. So now she´s telling her story; a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice.
It´s funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you´re telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern - it´s pretty hard to resist - don´t worry.

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A novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get Barbara Kingsolver New York Times Book Review

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Fowler, Karen Joy

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and has sold over half a million copies.
www.karenjoyfowler.com
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