From thrillers to race through to funny family dramas, all the new releases to get lost in this month
– or the TV adaptation it inspired – will be glad to know her second book is just as intelligent, engrossing and wryly funny. While her debut interrogated the structures of a marriage, here she turns her attention on family dysfunction and trauma – and somehow makes it a riot to read. The novel’s catalyst is the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher, the repercussions of which are felt across four decades and a sprawling cast list of his relations..
As someone who runs a care home, Rita is the last person anyone would expect to be spending her evenings posing as a young girl online in order to ensnare and expose predatory men. But in this deliciously dark thriller, nothing is as it seems.When Rose wakes up the morning after a party, lying in bed next to her is Milo Jax, a British pop sensation who also happens to be one of the most famous men on the planet. Piecing together what actually happened is a whole other problem.
So candid is this family memoir – replete with sex, rudeness, affairs – that it is near impossible to read it without your jaw on the floor. It is also, unsurprisingly, terrifically funny, while being humane and tender, bringing the comedian’s late parents back to life.While grieving for her father and dealing with a midlife breakup, Fuller was further knocked for six when her 21-year-old son suddenly died in his sleep.
The author, who was raised in Yorkshire, began writing after one not-so-successful year as an accountant and then 15 years as a modern languages teacher, and the thrill of being an author hasn’t worn off. “I enjoy all parts of the process, even routine things like copy-editing,” she reflects. “But for me the magic comes from those moments when the story – or the characters – genuinely surprise me.
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