Did You Ever Have a Family (Hardcover)

from EBT1002

"The world's magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned." This novel started slowly for me and I had to muster some determination to hang in there with it. The writing seemed pedestrian and the characters canned. I'm glad I stuck with it. The writing is n...

from ozzer

With his title, Bill Clegg asks a question, then proceeds to answer it with a very engaging plot and narrative structure. Clearly, his idea of family goes well beyond the traditional definition to include all sorts of people who nurture and sustain us. Some we meet briefly like a man who fixes a ...

from Randall.Hansen

An enjoyable read, but note that this novel starts slowly and involves numerous characters; the writing is decent, but while each chapter is told (narrated by an all-knowing author?) from the perspective of a different character, the flow is slow and plodding -- and with so many characters, the r...

from lauralkeet

June Reid survived a horrible tragedy, losing her entire family in a fire the night before her daughter's wedding. After the funerals, she leaves small-town Connecticut and heads west, looking to put as much distance as possible between her and the perceived source of pain and anguish. But June i...

from BrandieC

I loved this book. Put simply, Bill Clegg's Did You Ever Have a Family follows the fallout from a house fire the night before June's daughter's wedding, in which the daughter and her fiance, June's ex-husband, and her current lover Luke all died, leaving both June and Luke's mother Lydia bereft o...