The story of four women in Philadelphia and the dynamics in their family relationships, exacerbated by the shadow of mental illness
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One August Night by Victoria Hislop
Continuing where The Island finished, One August Night takes us back to Crete and the families of Plaka and their subsequent dramas
The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
Not for the fainthearted due to its controversial subject matter, The Roanoke Girls is intense, compelling, unsettling -not easily forgotten
The Ice-Cream Makers by Ernest van der Kwast
The Ice- Cream Makers by Ernest van der Kwast – The story of two brothers in a family of Italian ice-cream makers is full of family tradition, the binds of familial expectation, and poetry
They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson
An exploration of family relationships and the memories that can be rediscovered when clearing out a family home.