Nuclear Family
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โFunny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly realโ SARAH WATERS
'I canโt think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY
From the Polari Prize-winning author of IN AT THE DEEP END
When Lena buys DNA testing kits for her father Tom and her twin sister Alison, she thinks theyโll enjoy finding out where their ancestors come from, and what percentage Neanderthal they are. She has no idea the gift will blow her family apart.
Tom is forced to admit that he isnโt his daughtersโ biological father: he and his late wife, Sheila, used a sperm donor. He's terrified Lena and Alison will reject him, and desperate to win back their trust โ whatever it takes.
Alison thinks DNA doesnโt matter. She and her wife are trying to start a family using donor sperm, too. To her, Tom is their dad, and thatโs that.
But Lena becomes obsessed with tracking down their biological father. And when she discovers she has a half-brother โ an actor with a blue tick on Instagram โ she becomes obsessed with him, too...
From the author of the Polari Prize-winning In at the Deep End, this is a very funny and deeply moving novel about identity, donor conception and what it means to be a family.
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KATE DAVIES is a novelist, screenwriter and writer of childrenโs books. Her first novel, In at the Deep End, won the Polari Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. She lives in East London with her wife and son.
