At the Table: a Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

A 2022 Best Book Of The Year For The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Red, Good Housekeeping And CriticThe Kind Of Rare Story You Want To Nosedive Into On A Hot Hungover Weekend And Slurp Down Like Iced Coffee Cold, Sweet And Quenching . . . A Summer Read To Devour With Suncream And Spilt Ros And Then Lend To Your Mum Or Your Daughter The TimesAt The Table Is A Hugely Intelligent, Emotionally Astute Novel About Family Dynamics, And Claire Powell Is An Incredible New Talent Marian KeyesAn Assured, Exquisitely Drawn Novel That Fans Of Sorrow And Bliss Will Adore Sarra Manning, Red Magazineto Nicole And Jamie Maguire, Their Parents Seem The Ideal Couple A Suburban Double Act, Happily Married For More Than Thirty Years. So When Linda And Gerry Announce That TheyVe Decided To Separate, The News Sends Shockwaves Through The Siblings Lives, Forcing Them To Confront Their Own Expectations And Desires.Hardworking And HardDrinking Nicole Pursues The Ex She Unceremoniously Dumped Six Years Ago, While PeoplePleasing Jamie Fears HeS Sleepwalking Into A Marriage He DoesnT Actually Want. But As The Siblings Grapple With The Pressures Of Thirtysomething Life, Their Parents Struggle To Protect The Fragile FaAde Of Their Own Relationship, And The Secrets TheyVe Both Been Keeping.Set In 2018, Claire PowellS Beautifully Observed Debut Novel Follows Each Member Of The Maguire Family Over A Tumultuous Year Of Lunches, Dinners And Drinks, As Old Conflicts Arise And Relationships Are ReEvaluated. A Gripping Yet Tender Depiction Of Family Dynamics, Love And Disillusionment, At The Table Is About What It Means To Grow Up Both As An Individual, And As A Family.Painfully Funny, Acutely WellObserved, Powerfully Resonant In Its Humanity And Emotional Accuracy. I Missed This Book Whenever I WasnT Reading It Luke KennardA Brilliant, Coruscating Depiction Of Dysfunctional Family Life. So Astute, On So Many Levels. I Loved It Hannah Beckerman