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Foolish mortals

Jennifer Johnston

2008261 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2008
first published
  • 2008Headline Review · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780755330539
  • 2009Charnwood · 261 pages · ENGISBN 9781847824998

All families are complicated, but some are more complicated than others. And Christmas can only make matters worse. After Ciara's estranged father is nearly killed by his second wife in a car accident - or was it an accident? - Ciara begins, gingerly, to re-enter his life. As her troubled family gather for the holidays, is it too much to hope that they begin to find peace at last? Of course it is. With cross-dressing twins, new loves and an unpredictably monstrous matriarch, Christmas was never going to be easy. But it proves both more disastrous and happier than any of them could have guessed.

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Character focusSmall ensemble

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ThemesFamily
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