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A Friend of the Family

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 30/10/2003

  • ISBN: 9780140295979

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 298g

  • RRP: £8.99

A Friend of the Family

Lisa Jewell

The huge bestseller from the author of Then She Was Gone and The Girls

A stranger in the house can only mean trouble

The London family is in crisis.

Newly-divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he shouldn't.

Prize-winning writer Sean has a hot new girlfriend, and a dose of writer's block.

Their brother Ned has just come back from Australia, leaving his girlfriend behind.

And now they have a new lodger - a mysterious stranger.

But is he the friend this family needs, or a troublemaker they could do without?

'Terrific stuff: touching, funny and sentient' Sunday Times

'Funny and emotionally satisfying' The Times

'A heart-warming page-turner from start to finish' Heat

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • Published: 30/10/2003

  • ISBN: 9780140295979

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 298g

  • RRP: £8.99

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About the Author

Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell had always planned to write her first book when she was fifty. In fact she wrote it when she was twenty-seven and had just been made redundant from her job as a secretary. Inspired by Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, a book about young people just like her who lived in London, she wrote the first three chapters of what was to become her first novel, Ralph’s Party. It went on to become the bestselling debut novel of 1998. Fifteen bestselling novels later, she lives in London with her husband and their two daughters. Lisa writes every day in a local café where she can drink coffee, people-watch and, without access to the internet, actually get some work done . . . Keep in touch with Lisa: www.lisa-jewell.co.uk www.facebook.com/LisaJewellOfficial @lisajewelluk on Twitter

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