The Radleys

by Matt Haig

Meet the Radleys

Peter, Helen and their teenage children, Clara and Rowan, live in a typical suburban English town. They are an everyday family, averagely dysfunctional, averagely content. But, as their children have yet to find out, the Radleys have a devastating secret

In this moving, thrilling and extraordinary portrait of one unusual family, The Radleys asks what we grow into when we grow up, and explores what we gain - and lose - when we deny our appetites.

• ISBN10: 1847678602
• ISBN13: 9781847678607
• Publish Date: 1 July 2010 (first published 28 June 2010)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 5 September 2014
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Canongate Books
• Edition: Main
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Clara and Rowan live with sub-standard metabolisms, they have a constant rash, can't eat garlic, must wear sunscreen all the time while their parents have a very boring hum-drum life in an English town. What they don't know is that they're actually vampires. Well they don't know until Clara is attacked and kills a boy. Then things get complicated and everyone in the family has to face up to the reality of who they are and what makes them different.

It's an interesting idea but I wasn't impressed, it wasn't bad, it just has an interesting idea and ran with it but didn't develop the characters in any great detail. A light read that kept me reading but didn't make me want to read more by that author or make me want more of the story.