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>>>>
