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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014

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. Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014

The Million Copy Best-Seller

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, round about page 77, 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. And it was this decision, made by her parents, to give Rosemary a sister like no other, that began all of Rosemary´s trouble. So now she´s telling her story: full of hilarious asides and brilliantly spiky lines, it´s 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. One of the few studies Rosemary doesn´t quote says that spoilers actually enhance reading.

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A novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get ... [Its] fresh diction and madcap plot bend the tone toward comedy, but it never mislays its solemn raison d´être. Monkeyshines aside, this is a story of every family in which loss engraves relationships, truth is a soulful stalker and coming-of-age means facing down the mirror, recognizing the shape-shifting notion of self 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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