I'm sorry you feel this way.

From the author of this month's Waterstones book, Our Fathers, comes a captivating domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health, and the intricacies of sibling relationships. For saint and sinner Alice and Hannah, growing up is an ordeal. There's their mother, who takes a divide-and-rule approach to parenting, and their father, who takes an absentee approach. There's their older brother, Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There's the catastrophe that's never talked about, but has shaped everything. As Alice and Hannah grow older, they must contend with disappointments in work and love, as well as increasingly complex family tensions, and a life that looks distressingly different from what they intended. They must search for a way to repair their fractured relationship and must finally choose their own approach to their controlling mother: submit or burn the house down. And they must ultimately decide whether life is actually more than (as Hannah would have it) a tragedy with some laugh-out-loud moments.