Hardcover, 263 pages
English language
Published December 2002 by Gollancz.
The Facts of Life
by Graham Joyce
- ISBN:
- 978-0-575-07230-5
- OCLC Number:
- 59468417
- ASIN:
- 057507230X
- Goodreads:
- 3422633
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The Facts of Life tells the story of the Vines, an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during and after the second world war.
Presided over by an indomitable matriarch, the sisters live out tangled and fraught lives built on loyalty and betrayal, love and frustration, fear and hope. Lives informed by family wisdom and sometimes harsh tradition.
From the hallucinatory horror of the night the Luftwaffe levelled Coventry, via the everyday tensions of a family just scraping through in wartime, to a bizarre interlude in a post-war communist collective, this is an evocative and affecting story of lives lived to the full.
And through it all wanders the young son of the youngest daughter. Never knowing his father, he has passed from sister to sister. Frank is the innocent witness to a life that edges over from war into peace, and from mundane into the magical and …
The Facts of Life tells the story of the Vines, an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during and after the second world war.
Presided over by an indomitable matriarch, the sisters live out tangled and fraught lives built on loyalty and betrayal, love and frustration, fear and hope. Lives informed by family wisdom and sometimes harsh tradition.
From the hallucinatory horror of the night the Luftwaffe levelled Coventry, via the everyday tensions of a family just scraping through in wartime, to a bizarre interlude in a post-war communist collective, this is an evocative and affecting story of lives lived to the full.
And through it all wanders the young son of the youngest daughter. Never knowing his father, he has passed from sister to sister. Frank is the innocent witness to a life that edges over from war into peace, and from mundane into the magical and the fey.