Family Life Archives

5-STAR REVIEW: PARENT IMPERFECT by Paul Lamb

Family Life Sandy Saucier - 3 June 2024

Publication Date: June 1, 2024 Parent Imperfect, the sequel to One-Match Fire, tells the story of a man who was almost given up for adoption, another man who wishes he had been, and...

5-STAR REVIEW: RELATIVE STRANGERS by A.H. Kim

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 2 April 2024

Publication Date: April 2, 2024 From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy love affairs...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE INHERITANCE by Joanna Goodman

Family Life Sandy Saucier - 12 March 2024

Publication Date: March 12, 2024 From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: AFTER ANNIE by Anna Quindlen

Women's Fiction JoAnne - 12 March 2024

Publication Date: February 27, 2024 When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS by Jessamine Chan

Dystopian Sandy Saucier - 21 July 2023

Publication Date: February 7, 2023 Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger...

5-STAR REVIEW: PETE AND ALICE IN MAINE by Caitlin Shetterly

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 4 July 2023

Publication Date: July 4, 2023 A powerful and beautifully written debut novel that intimately explores a fractured marriage and the struggles of modern parenthood, set against the backdrop of the chaotic spring of...

5-STAR REVIEW: MY MAGNOLIA SUMMER by Victoria Benton Frank

Family Life Amy Wilson - 5 June 2023

Publication Date: June 6, 2023 Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, struggling...

5-STAR REVIEW: THERE ARE NO RULES FOR THIS by JJ Elliott

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 16 May 2023

Publication Date: May 16, 2023 People like Feeney Simms don’t commit suicide. Beautiful, charismatic, mother of two, wife to a handsome, successful husband, beloved by her friends—this is not the typical picture of...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE HOME FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Marcia Bradley

Women's Fiction Amy Wilson - 4 April 2023

Publication Date: April 4, 2023 While other adolescent girls are listening to grunge rock or swooning over boy bands and movie stars, Loretta knows little of life beyond the Home for Wayward Girls,...

5-STAR REVIEW: FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW by Christina Dodd

Mystery Amy Wilson - 7 March 2023

Publication Date: March 7, 2023 A submerged car is pulled from the bottom of the lake. The driver has been shot in the back of the head and no other bodies are found....

3-STAR REVIEW: ONLY AND EVER THIS by J.A. Tyler

Family Life Amy Wilson - 21 February 2023

Publication Date: February 21, 2023 A mother clings to twin sons, desperate to keep them from becoming their father, a pirate forever sailing away. In this rain-soaked township, she will attempt to mummify...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE MOTHER I NEVER HAD by Gary Goldstein

Romantic Comedy Amy Wilson - 11 October 2022

Publication Date: October 11, 2022 It's tough enough for L.A. landscape designer Nate Cronin when his professor father, Jim, who raised him alone since birth, dies, leaving Nate an orphan at thirty years...