WE ARE THE BRENNANS

In the vein of Maggie O`Farrell and John Boyne, Tracey Lange`s critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame - and the redemptive power of love ` in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. Some secrets you keep from your family. And some secrets you keep for your family.When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk-driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it`s not easy. She deserted them all ` and her high school sweetheart ` five years before, with little explanation, and they`ve got questions.Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the East Coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fianc. The longer she stays, however, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family`s pub business to the brink of financial ruin, Sunday knows that the only way to protect her family is to reveal deeply buried secrets ` secrets that will threaten everything they know about their lives.In the aftermath, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes - and find a way forward, together. An astonishingly accomplished debut - the Brennans leap fully formed onto the page in this brilliantly judged novel of the intricacies of family life . .. Wholly engrossing. - Cathy Kelly, author of The Year That Changed Everything