Family Drama

'A magnificent debut. It has everything I love - gorgeous writing, complicated love affairs, a gripping storyline' CLARE LESLIE HALL, author of BROKEN COUNTRY
'Intelligent and very moving' ROSIE PRICE, author of WHAT RED WAS
'A truly sublime novel' HANNAH BEER, author of I MAKE MY OWN FUNSusan Bliss is torn between two lives.Her husband Alcott has decided only one will be remembered.It's the 1990s.
Susan Bliss is trying to make it all work. Her growing stardom in L.A., where she's a regular on the nation's favourite TV show. And her less lauded role as wife in New England, married to a history professor and raising young twins.It's the 2000s.
Susan Bliss died young, and Viola and Sebastian have no real concept of their mother's fame.
But the past can't stay hidden forever, and as the teenaged twins pursue the secrets their mother left behind, they spin off in different directions. Sebastian plunges down an investigative rabbit hole. Viola falls for the movie star Orson Grey, who was once her mother's co-star.
Obsession, ambition, love, pain, wonder, mystery. Every family has its dramas. But what happens when someone else tells your story?
Perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell, Ann Napolitano or Claire Lombardo, Family Dramais an exquisite debut novel about the fantasies we create and the people we become.

Rebecca Fallon grew up in New England and now lives in London. Her writing has appeared in The Observerand The Fence magazine.She is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Oxford. Family Drama is her first novel.