The Radleys

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Meet tRe Radlcys, cin everyday family ... of vampires On á leafy Street in the quiet village of Bishopthorpe lives a very ordinary and averagely dysfunctional happy family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife, Helen, is part of the local book club. Their children, Clara and Rowan, may be experiencing all the hormonal anguish of being teenagers, but thats just a normál part of growing up. However, Peter and Helen have kept a family secret from the children. One night, after Clara finds herself driven to commit a bloodthirsty act of violence, her parents react with resignation rather than horror. Peter and Helen must now explain things to their children: why their skin is so sensitive to sunlight; why they all find garlic so repulsive; why Clara s recent decision to go vegan has been so detrimental to her health ... and other disadvantages of being a family of abstaining vampires. Reeling from their parents' revelation, and with the police closing in, Clara and Rowan are... Tovább

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Meet tRe Radlcys, cin everyday family ... of vampires On á leafy Street in the quiet village of Bishopthorpe lives a very ordinary and averagely dysfunctional happy family. Peter Radley is the village doctor, and his wife, Helen, is part of the local book club. Their children, Clara and Rowan, may be experiencing all the hormonal anguish of being teenagers, but thats just a normál part of growing up. However, Peter and Helen have kept a family secret from the children. One night, after Clara finds herself driven to commit a bloodthirsty act of violence, her parents react with resignation rather than horror. Peter and Helen must now explain things to their children: why their skin is so sensitive to sunlight; why they all find garlic so repulsive; why Clara s recent decision to go vegan has been so detrimental to her health ... and other disadvantages of being a family of abstaining vampires. Reeling from their parents' revelation, and with the police closing in, Clara and Rowan are stunned by the further discovery that they have an uncle, a smoothtalking and decidedly active vampire who has been kept away from them all their lives. When he swoops into the village to save the day, he unleashes a host of even darker secrets that will bring the whole Radley family either to reconciliation and readjustment... or to self-destruction. "A comic tour de force." -The Times (London) on The Last Family in England "Poignant, funny, innocent, touching____A fine piece of work by a talented and clearly imaginative young writer." -Sunday Express on The Dead Fathers Club MATT HAIG has published three aduit novels: The Last Family in England, The Dead Fathers Club and The Possession of Mr. Cave (which the New York Times called "chilling, riveting, heartbreaking"). He has alsó published two highly regarded childrens novels, Shadow Forest (winner the Nestlé Childrens Book Prize) and The Runaway Troli Visit Matt Haig online at www.matthaig.com. Vissza