Such a Thing

Can you trust love, survive betrayal,
stick to your principles no matter what?

For the Goulden family life is Such a Thing.

This is the final novel in the Long Lost Trilogy: Girl Without a Voice, Other Selves, Such a Thing

Julia is on gardening leave. Izzy resumes her search for her long lost son. Danny must trace an absconded spy and recover two stolen files. James needs to find work, but not for those who seek him out. Leah finds work but must resolve her feelings for Martin. The final Goulden family novel is set in a pre-Covid Britain, in the age of Putin and Donald Trump.

Chris Bridge’s fourth novel is a human thriller, a family saga, a real page turner, ‘contemporary but with characters you can believe in, emotional complexity and a sense of pace.’

The Long Lost Trilogy
When Gary Goulden - entrepreneur, wealthy businessman and bully - dies, no one mourns him. His wife, Izzy, feels liberated, and is free to search for the child she gave up for adoption almost fifty years ago. His children emerge, blinking from under his shadow. They begin to rearrange their relationships with their mother, each other, their half-brother and themselves. Everything changes for each of them. The Long Lost Trilogy - Girl Without a Voice, Other Selves and Such a Thing - explores sibling relationships against a background of the key issues facing Britain: fundamentalism, populism, and the battle between purity and pragmatism. If you want a long read with a sparkling plot, real characters, and a strong sense of time and place, this is it.