family life

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family life

The house of the spirits

1993
The epic story of the passionate Trueba family begins at the turn of the century in South America.

To the lighthouse

1989
Describes a party gathered at a house in England. In later years only caretakers have the house, and in the last part of the story the house is again filled with surviving family members.

Bullet Park

a novel
1991
Dutiful Eliot Nailles' life is changed after meeting his newest neighbor in Bullet Park, the villainous Paul Hammer, who has designs to murder Eliot's only son.

Anywhere but here

1992
Restless and ambitious Adele August and her twelve-year-old daughter Ann run away to California with a host of American dreams and myths to lead them.

My son's story

1991
A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.

Teacup full of roses

1987
Joe's decision to leave home is prompted by despair over his mother's blindness to his younger brother's talents and his older brother's drug addiction.

The man in the ceiling

1999
Although not very good at sports or in his schoolwork, Jimmy can draw and dreams of being a great cartoonist; that dream seems within reach when star athlete Charley Beemer suggests they create comics together.

Kate Vaiden

1998
Fifty-seven-year-old Kate Vaiden reassesses her life and her motivations while preparing to contact the son she deserted forty years earlier.

At weddings and wakes

1998
Story of an Irish-Catholic family on Long Island told through the eyes of two sisters and their brother.

Lost in Spain

2000
Ted and his parents, vacationing in Europe in the summer of 1936, become caught up in the dangers and intrigues of the Spanish Civil War.

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