Meet the Newells, a big family of good lookers and hard grafters.
From their sleepy working class backwater, the siblings break into
Oxford academia, London's high life, the glossy world of magazine
publishing and the stratospheric riches of New York's hedge funds.
Then there's Paddy, the wrong'un in their midst, who prefers life's
underbelly. As things fall apart around his sister Bea, is Paddy
behind it all? And why does matriarch Edie turn a blind eye to her
son's malevolence? Will she stand by and watch while he wrecks the
lives of her other children? Just how much is she willing to
sacrifice to protect her son? The book opens with Edie, now in her
seventies, who looks back on her early married life with her
husband, George, and their ever-growing brood. She loved having
babies, but resented their growth and increasing independence. She
recalls the horror and confusion surrounding the death of her
toddler son, Timmy. Even though it happened forty years ago, she
still blames her brother, his uncle, for falling asleep while he
was supposed to be looking after the children. Now, her favourite
son, Paddy, has just been released from prison for dangerous
driving. She is good at making excuses for him. All her other
children are successful, and have done extremely well in their
chosen careers, but it becomes apparent that she begrudges her only
daughter's success. Why does she resent her daughter so much? Paddy
is malevolent, violent, bullying, cruel... Edie has never forgiven
herself for giving him up to the care system before she married
George. He has never fitted in with his siblings, and is the bad
apple that can ruin the whole batch. The only person he has ever
cared about is his stepfather, George, who saw only too clearly
what Edie has always been blind to. Bea, the only daughter in the
family, has grown up knowing her mother doesn't love her. She is a
successful journalist, and adores her husband, David, and her
stepchildren, but longs for a baby of her own. Then suddenly David
dies. In the midst of her grief, her glamorous cleaning lady,
Lorena, flaunts her pregnancy. She insists that the baby is
David's, and is willing to take a DNA test to prove it. Welcome to
the world of the Newells, where nothing is as it seems.
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