Rebecca Monroe's pregnancy forces her to reassess her own offbeat, sometimes dysfunctional family history, including a mother obsessed with holiday trifle, a hippie aunt, an imaginative sister, and a grandmother hiding a lifelong secret.

The Family Tree

Literature & Fiction

Cadwalladr, Carole

Genre Fiction

Penguin Audio

On the day Lady Diana married Prince Charles, Rebecca Monroe's mother locked herself in the bathroom and never came out. Was it because the holiday dinner didn't turn out just right? Because Rebecca's grandmother married her first cousin? Or was she simply, unalterably unhappy? According to Rebecca's scientist husband, our genes control our fate - but Rebecca isn't so sure.

Contemporary

Dutton, New York

Family Tree

Penguin Group

When Rebecca Monroe—married to Alistair, a scientist who doesn’t believe in fate, but rather genetic disposition—discovers that she is pregnant, she begins to question what makes us who we are and whether her own precarious family history will play a role in her future.
For Rebecca, the wry and observant narrator of The Family Tree, simple things said over breakfast take on greater meaning: a home-improvement project foreshadows darker things to come; the color of one’s eyes, the slope of a forehead are all missing pieces to the truth behind the family tree.
At once nostalgic and refreshingly original, The Family Tree is a sophisticated story of one woman and the generations of women who came before her and whose legacy shaped her life and its emotional landscape.

Literary

Plume

This is the story of a woman who looks back at her family history, from 1940s Yorkshire, to 1970s suburbia, to her present-day marriage to a geneticist, and comes to terms with her own mother's breakdown and the hereditary dysfunctional gene she might be carrying.

Black Swan Books, Limited

The right information can change a trip abroad from a disaster to a triumph. This book is full of the latest inside tips for the tourist and business traveller alike on how to survive and enjoy a trip to Lebanon in 1996. It covers how to travel there, and where to stay and eat cheaply. It includes advice on getting around within Lebanon, coping with red tape, what to do if things go wrong, and how to make sure they don't. The authors also feature full background information on Lebanon's history and culture.

Traveller's Survival Kit: Lebanon

Travel

Sutton, Anna

Asia

Vacation-Work

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The Family Tree

The Family Tree

Family Tree

The Family Tree

The Family Tree

Traveller's Survival Kit: Lebanon