Did You Ever Have a Family

12 November, 2015
Author: Bill Clegg
Genre: Fiction
Category: New Books

Recommended by bookseller Jenny Buckland: 'Did You Ever Have a Family is a tale of small-town tragedy told by a surprisingly large and varied number of voices, each of them suffering, recovering, meditating on their human flaws; and all of them connected in some way to the devastating fire that opens the novel. Bill Clegg has created a clever and poignant account of the everyday coincidences, mistakes and accidents that determine the courses of our lives and those connected to us. For a novel with suffering as its central theme, Did You Ever Have a Family is surprisingly optimistic, at times even uplifting. It left me with a sharpened sense of gratitude for the people in my life, and the urge to read this book again!