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This Is How It Always Is

This Is How It Always Is

The warm and uplifting novel about a family keeping a big secret

by Laurie Frankel
Paperback
Publication Date: 11/01/2018

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Laurie Frankel's This is How it Always is 'a sparkling tale about the power of secrets, loyalty and love' (Sunday Mirror). Perfect for readers of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and A Boy Made of Blocks.

This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them.

This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated.

This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.

Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes.

Laurie Frankel's This is How it Always is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it's about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don't get to keep them forever.

'A very special book about a family with a secret. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.' Liane Moriarty, No. 1 bestselling author of Big Little Lies

ISBN:
9781472241610
9781472241610
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11-01-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
197x124x31mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Laurie Frankel

Laurie Frankel lives in Seattle with her husband, son and border collie. Before becoming a full-time writer, she taught literature, writing and gender studies at a US university.

Her previous novel, The Atlas of Love, has been highly acclaimed: 'This beautifully written debut offers something for everyone - humour, richly drawn characters, and a tender exploration of love, friendship, and food' - Los Angeles Times Magazine.

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