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The Accidental Favorite : A Novel. Cover Image Book Book

The Accidental Favorite : A Novel.

Littlewood, Fran. (Author).

Summary:

'The Accidental Favorite' is a deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favourite? From the author of 'Amazing Grace Adams' (a RADD pick), which was an instant NYT bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna book club pick.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250857118
  • Physical Description: 320 pages ; 2 x 15 cm
  • Publisher: Canada : Henry Holt and Co., 2025.

Content descriptions

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
Library Bound Incorporated
Subject: FICTION / Family Life / Siblings
FICTION / Humorous
FICTION / Humorous / General
FICTION / Women

Available copies

  • 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 3 current holds with 1 total copy.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    "From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite? Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have donean excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it's with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside for a weeklong celebration of Vivienne's seventieth birthday. But when Patrick's reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals that he has a favorite daughter, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it sends through the family. Decades-old unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked. And be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts about life decisions both big and small, no one's secretsare safe. Still-tender wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers, and as the family's past is re-written, they find themselves suddenly unmoored. In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"--
  • Baker & Taylor
    A moving family dramedy investigates the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite?
  • McMillan Palgrave

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite?

    Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They’re well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it’s with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside for a weeklong celebration of Vivienne’s seventieth birthday. But when Patrick’s reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals that he has a favorite daughter, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it sends through the family.

    Decades-old unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked. And be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts about life decisions both big and small, no one’s secrets are safe. Still-tender wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers, and as the family's past is re-written, they find themselves suddenly unmoored.

    In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.


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