The Radleys

Product Description<br/><br/>On a leafy street in the quiet village of Bishopthorpe there 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 that’s only a normal part of growing up. However, Peter and Helen have kept from the children a life-changing family secret.<br/>One night, when Clara finds herself driven to committing a bloodthirsty act of violence, her parents react with resignationrather than horror. Peter and Helen must now explain things to their children: why it is that 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.<br/>Reeling from their parents’ revelation, and with the police closing in, Clara and Rowan are stunned by the further discovery that they also have an uncle, a smooth-talking and decidedly active vampire who has been kept away from them all their lives. But when he swoops into the village to save the day, he unleashes a host of shadowy and even darker secrets that will bring the whole Radley family either to reconciliation and readjustment . . . or to self-destruction.<br/><br/>Review<br/><br/>“A bloody good time. . . . It’s rare that you can call a novel charming that involves murder and blood-drinking, but that’s exactly what Matt Haig has provided us: a smart little fable . . . told with a sly wink and a great deal of wit and humour.” (The Globe and Mail)<br/><br/>This witty vampire novel from British author Haig provides what jaded fans of the Twilight series need, not True Blood exactly, but some fresh blood in the form of a true blue family. (Publishers Weekly (starred review))<br/><br/>The Radleys is effortlessly sleek and witty. (Entertainment Weekly)<br/><br/>Irresistible….Full of clever turns, darkly hilarious spins….Even if you’re suffering from vampire fatigue, you’ll find The Radleys is a fun, fresh contribution to the genre. (Associated Press)<br/><br/>Delightfully eccentric . . . a strangely moving portrait of a marriage. (The Financial Times)<br/><br/>Red-blooded fiction at its most seductive. (Sunday Telegraph)<br/><br/>Haig writes in addictive, bitesize chapters that pump the action along... All vampire fiction has a strong sexual element, but in this book, the passion’s not just for the pale-faced teens. (Daily Mail (UK))<br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/>MATT HAIG suffered a breakdown in his early twenties. After battling depression for a long time he turned to writing, and he now believes that reading and writing books saved his life. His novels include the bestsellers The Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans, which in Canada was a Costco Buyer’s Pick and has sold approximately 15,000 copies. His books have been translated into thirty languages. All his novels for adults have been optioned for film. Matt lives in York with his wife and their two children.