The Radleys

Matt Haig

Families. Sometimes they're a bloody nightmare . . .

Synopsis

Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and self-denial. Loads of self-denial. But all hell is about to break loose. When teenage daughter Clara gets attacked on the way home from a party, she and her brother Rowan finally discover why they can't sleep, can't eat a Thai salad without fear of asphyxiation and can't go outside unless they're smothered in Factor 50.

With a visit from their lethally louche uncle Will and an increasingly suspicious police force, life in Bishopthorpe is about to change. Drastically.

The Radleys

Matt Haig

Matt Haig was born in 1975. His debut novel, The Last Family in England, was a UK bestseller. The Dead Fathers Club, an update of Hamlet featuring an eleven-year-old boy, and The Possession of Mr Cave, a horror story about an overprotective father, are being made into films and have been translated into numerous languages. He is also the author of the award winning children's novel Shadow Forest, and its sequel, The Runaway Troll. A film of The Radleys is in production with Alfonso Cuaron. Matt has lived in London and Spain, and now lives in York with the writer Andrea Semple and their two children.

: 'Dripping in blood, this is a story of family secrets so terrible that they shouldn't be uncovered.', Guardian
: 'Red-blooded fiction at its most seductive.', Sunday Telegraph
: 'Delightfully eccentric . . . a strangely moving portrait of a marriage.', The Financial Times
: 'A sharp, bloody tale of abstinence and indulgence (and
trying not to eat the neighbours).', Steven Hall, author of The Raw Shark Texts
: 'Reality bites in a funny family affair. . . pointed, clever and witty.', Kim Newman, Independent