Nuclear Family

Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real SARAH WATERS 'I cant think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY From the Polari Prize-winning author of IN AT THE DEEP END When Lena buys DNA testing kits for her father Tom and her twin sister Alison, she thinks theyll enjoy finding out where their ancestors come from, and what percentage Neanderthal they are. She has no idea the gift will blow her family apart. Tom is forced to admit that he isnt his daughters biological father: he and his late wife, Sheila, used a sperm donor. He's terrified Lena and Alison will reject him, and desperate to win back their trust whatever it takes. Alison thinks DNA doesnt matter. She and her wife are trying to start a family using donor sperm, too. To her, Tom is their dad, and thats that. But Lena becomes obsessed with tracking down their biological father. And when she discovers she has a half-brother an actor with a blue tick on Instagram she becomes obsessed with him, too From the author of the Polari Prize-winning In at the Deep End, this is a very funny and deeply moving novel about identity, donor conception and what it means to be a family.