Things She Would Have Said Herself

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 375 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: For those who loved Olive Kitteridge and Boy Swallows Universe comes a darkly funny, deeply moving novel told with breathtaking originality and dazzling talent.Leslie Bird loves being a wife and mother but loathes her husband and children. The only person she ever loved was born dead.Meet Leslie Bird, the irascible matriarch of a big bonkers family, coming of age and to the boil, as the secrets and slights that have shaped her and her hapless husbands lives impact their children in the most profound and complex ways. In other words, everyones story. Sort of. Because this is a story, and family, like none youve ever read before.Things She Would Have Said Herself is a darkly funny, deeply moving novel about the lengths and breadths one woman will go to ignore her own and others pain and what happens when shes confronted by it one sweltering Christmas day.A story of motherhood, marriage, madness, unspeakable loss and the heartbreaking messy love that holds a family together. Honest, revealing, resonant and startlingly original, if you loved Olive Kitteridge and Boy Swallows Universe, you will love this book!

ISBN: 9780733648892