- Fiction, Family secrets, Vampires, Dysfunctional families
"On a leafy street in the quiet village of Bishopthorpe there lives a very ordinary and averagely dysfunctional happy family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife Helen is part of the local book club.
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Contemporary, classical in form, comic and effortless.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Matt Haig
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 355
- Publisher
- Canongate Books, Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH, Canongate
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9783462042337
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