A Family Daughter - Softcover

'With its humour, athletic sex and explosive secrets, A FAMILY DAUGHTER is the delinquent offspring of LIARS AND SAINTS, and deserves similar success' -- Daily Mail Book of the month: ' You can't help but be caught up by Meloy's enthralling storytelling which alternates between dramatic narrative swoops and tiny moments of emotional acuity. A truly original piece of work, (it) establishes Meloy as a writer with an imaginative territory as distinctive and finely worked as that of Anne Tyler' -- Marie Claire 20060401 'The new book is better than the first, but it's hard to separate them. Ms. Meloy's reflections on truth and fiction are best appreciated when the two novels collide... A FAMILY DAUGHTER roams engrossingly from California to Paris to Buenos Aires in ways that make it a big book as well as a swift, slender, graceful one ... This new book has the deep ramifications of more ambitious fiction' -- New York Times 20060401 '[Meloy] ... writes wonderfully well, with an efficiency so lithe it's like watching an athlete' -- Guardian 20060401 'A deliciously duplicitous book, a darkly perceptive examination of American mores disguised as a light family romance.' -- Sunday Telegraph (Seven) 20060401 'A great weekend read' -- Vogue 20060401 'Both compassionate and gripping, A FAMILY DAUGHTER is a wonderful piece of fiction' -- Books Quarterly (Waterstone's) 20060401

It is 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with chickenpox during a heat wave. The events of that summer will change her family's lives for ever. In A Family Daughter, Maile Meloy returns to the complicated world of the Santerres. This captivating story of an American family in crisis is told from the view of Abby, a young woman grieving for her father and rediscovering the family she always thought she knew. An engaging and insightful novel about the joys and complications of modern life, A Family Daughter is a delicious read. For everyone who has yet to meet the Santerres, an unmatched pleasure awaits.