Nuclear Family

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Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real SARAH WATERS

'I cant think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY

From the Polari Prize-winning author of IN AT THE DEEP END
When Lena buys DNA testing kits for her father Tom and her twin sister Alison, she thinks theyll enjoy finding out where their ancestors come from, and what percentage Neanderthal they are. She has no idea the gift will blow her family apart.

Tom is forced to admit that he isnt his daughters biological father: he and his late wife, Sheila, used a sperm donor. He's terrified Lena and Alison will reject him, and desperate to win back their trust whatever it takes.

Alison thinks DNA doesnt matter. She and her wife are trying to start a family using donor sperm, too. To her, Tom is their dad, and thats that.

But Lena becomes obsessed with tracking down their biological father. And when she discovers she has a half-brother an actor with a blue tick on Instagram she becomes obsessed with him, too

From the author of the Polari Prize-winning In at the Deep End, this is a very funny and deeply moving novel about identity, donor conception and what it means to be a family.

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Davies writes with a glorious sureness of touch and impeccable comic timing. Nuclear Family is funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real SARAH WATERS

'A welcome return from one of the freshest voices in fiction. In Nuclear Family Kate Davies turns her acute eye on family, identity and belonging, not to mention the mechanics of insemination. I cant think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY

Filled with wisdom about love, building a family and what makes us who we are, its also very, very funny STYLIST

Confront[s] sensitive subjects with wit and tenderness an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of family The Bookseller, BOOK OF THE MONTH

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From food to fiction, Kate likes things spicy. She writes award-winning sexy contemporary romance. Her print book Lessons Learned was named Small Press Contemporary Romance of the Year by Romantic Times Book Review. When she isnt writing about strong, sexy men and women finding their happily-ever-afters, she spends her time juggling calendars for herself, three active kids, and one husband. www.kate-davies.com, facebook.com/KateDaviesRomance