The Radleys: A Novel

The Radleys: A Novel

Just about everyone knows a family like the Radleys. Many of us grew up next door to one. They are a modern family, averagely content, averagely dysfunctional, living in a staid and quiet suburban English town. Peter is an overworked doctor whose wife, Helen, has become increasingly remote and uncommunicative. Rowan, their teenage son, is being bullied at school, and their anemic daughter, Clara, has recently become a vegan. They are typical, that is, save for one devastating exception: Peter and Helen are vampires and haveâ€”for seventeen yearsâ€”been abstaining by choice from a life of chasing blood in the hope that their children could live normal lives.

One night, Clara finds herself driven to commit a shockingâ€”and disturbingly satisfyingâ€”act of violence, and her parents are forced to explain their history of shadows and lies. A police investigation is launched that uncovers a richness of vampire history heretofore unknown to the general public. And when the malevolent and alluring Uncle Will, a practicing vampire, arrives to throw the police off Claraâ€™s trail, he winds up throwing the whole house into temptation and turmoil and unleashing a host of dark secrets that threaten the Radleysâ€™ marriage.

The Radleys is a moving, thrilling, and radiant domestic novel that explores with daring the lengths a parent will go to protect a child, what it costs you to deny your identity, the undeniable appeal of sin, and the everlasting, iridescent bonds of family love. Read it and ask what we grow into when we grow up, and what we gainâ€”and loseâ€”when we deny our appetites.

Country	USA
Author	Matt Haig
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Free Press
EAN	9781439194010
Edition	First Edition
Feature	Great product!
ISBN	1439194017
Label	Free Press
Manufacturer	Free Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	384
PublicationDate	2010-12-28
Publisher	Free Press
ReleaseDate	2010-12-28
Studio	Free Press

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