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The House We Grew Up In

Lisa Jewell

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 32393 Users | 3352 Reviews

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Original Title:	The House We Grew Up In
ISBN:	1846059240 (ISBN13: 9781846059247)
Edition Language:	English

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Meet the Bird Family

All four children have an idyllic childhood: a picture-book cottage in a country village, a warm, cosy kitchen filled with love and laughter, sun-drenched afternoons in a rambling garden.

But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart.

The years pass and the children become adults and begin to develop their own quite separate lives. Soon it's almost as though they've never been a family at all.

Almost.
But not quite.

Because something has happened that will call them home, back to the house they grew up in - and to what really happened that Easter
weekend all those years ago.

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Title	:	The House We Grew Up In
Author	:	Lisa Jewell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	July 18th 2013 by Random House UK, Cornerstone (first published January 1st 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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Ratings: 3.87 From 32393 Users | 3352 Reviews

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Maybe 2.5 starsWhat started off as a promising story of a family dealing with a mentally ill mother who becomes an agoraphobic hoarder, devolved into a soap opera worthy, bat shit crazy tale that was like a checklist of every possible cliche someone can throw into a story. The part of the story dealing with the relationship with the mother and her life was good and intriguing. I thought the hoarding aspect and the reaction of the family to it was portrayed with a good amount of realism and

I had the indulgent experience of reading this Jewell of a book in one day. A rainy Saturday with no commitments. Well none I wanted to face, put it that way!This story really delved into every level of one family's relationships. Layer upon layer upon layer. A family to love and root for, too, but on the other hand, also to grab by the shoulders and shake violently some sense into!I'd been eyeing this book for a couple of years at my library, always looking on the shelf and always being in the

This was both a disturbing and wonderful read all in one story. I have not read Jewell before but will be on the lookout for more. Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to read this in exchange for a review. The reader is introduced to the warm yet somewhat quirky Bird family while celebrating the Easter Holiday. The story then changes tone with a tragedy that changes the dynamics of each family member and contributes to their future lives and choices.We grow up with each of the younger members

Wow, what an amazing read this was! I've read and enjoyed several of Lisa Jewell's novels, and this is my favorite of them. In fact, it's one of the very best books I've read this year.I might never have found this book if I hadn't come across a reference to it in Ellery Adams' The Whispered Word, where it's recommended by a bookshop owner to a husband and wife who have come into conflict over the husband's hoarding tendencies. Well, if any book would persuade a person to stop accumulating more

What a tragic story. What a beautiful story. It's centres around the Bird family - mum Lorelei, dad Colin and their four children, Megan, Bethan, Rory and Rhys; all six will play a significant role. Set partly in the present-day and partly in the past, the book spans thirty years. The first flashback takes us to the sunny Easter Sunday of 1981, the picturesque garden of their Cotswold cottage full of love, laughter, fun and foil-covered chocolate eggs; an idyllic scene. In the present-day,

'You can paint it all the colors your want, as long as it is black' - Henry Ford. I concluded this read, admittedly skipping four predictable, dreary chapters somewhere in the middle. The summarizing chapters at the end caught me up with the tedious events I have anyway skipped in an effort to save my own sanity.Having read so many depressing, 'soul-intoxicating' books lately, I simply could not endure another one as hard as I tried. This one was the extreme mother of them all! For now at

"I love other people's families," he said. "They always make me feel better about my own."I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. This book is about a very dysfunctional family and parts of it were hard to read. It did keep me reading to the end to find out what happened and I loved some of the characters. I can see why others liked it but it will not be a favorite of mine.