EAN: 9781529153804

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'Smart funny and beautifully written. Brodeur is a brilliant dissector of family relationships a lyricist of the natural world and an astute observer of our inner turmoils' MONICA ALI 'Gorgeous gripping I couldn't put it down' RUTH OZEKI 'Beautiful lyrical and unvarnished Adrienne Brodeur's Little Monsters delivers its powerful emotional punches so subtly that they sneak up on you and leave you floored' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER author of THE PAPER PALACE A riveting novel about Cape Cod complicated families and long-buried secrets Ken and Abby Gardner were raised in a remote home on Cape Cod. As adults their relationship is strained but their lives are still deeply intertwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family but when his wife walks in on him in an internet chatroom she demands they go to therapy. Abby is a talented artist who depends on her brother's goodwill in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. Their father Adam a brilliant oceanographer raised them as a single parent. As his seventieth birthday approaches and he begins to stare down his mortality he comes off his bipolar disorder medication in order to make one last scienti?c breakthrough he has secretly stopped taking his pills which he knows will infuriate his children. Meanwhile Abby and Ken are both harbouring secrets of their own and there is a new person on the periphery of the family - Steph who doesn't make her connection known. Set over one fraught summer Little Monsters is an absorbing sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out - its Edenic lushness and its snakes.

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