Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
2014/ 304 pages
rating – 9.25 /  contemp. fiction
(Booker Long List)

Well it was finally released – Sept. 1 – and I got into it asap – (had to finish The Cartel by Don Winslow first).

June Reid’s  family is killed in a house fire which only she survives – she was sitting outside.   Her boyfriend Luke,  a mixed-race man 20 years her junior with a jail record (although he could have been innocent),  and her 20-year old daughter Lolly, who was to be married the next day, were sleeping inside along with  Lolly’s fiancé Will and June’s ex-husband/Lolly’s father, Adam.  >>>>MORE>>>>