Family Pictures

Spanning forty years Family Pictures follows the conflict between husband and wife, over a beautiful autistic child. Randall is both angel and demon. His father, David, a coolly rational psychiatrist, wants him placed in an institution; his mother, Lainey, insists on keeping him at home. Yet it is not just David and Lainey who are struggling to come to terms with a difficult and unpredictable child; there are five other children in the family, each of them coping with the dramas and rifts surrounding them, each of them affected by Randall.

SALES POINTS From the author of the international bestseller The Good Mother Both The Good Mother and Family Pictures are being reissued with stylish new covers 'In tone it is absolutely flawless ... proof of her extraordinary talent' Anne Tyler 'A big, wonderful, deeply absorbing novel' Newsweek 'Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing, original and true' New York Times 'A remarkable tapestry which explores the love of parents and children with quite extraordinary depth and subtlety' She