'Very original spin on the myth.The bite-size chapters guide the reader from one viewpoint to another.Haig's depiction of teen politics is spot on.insightful, frightening and uplifting.Uncle Will a splendidly evil yet believable character.Haig pays just about enough respect to the conventions of the genre that the average vampire fan should find lots to enjoy, but it's the blackly comic dissection of the family that makes this book stand out.' - The Guardian Read it and ask what we grow into when we grow up, and what we gain-and lose-when we deny our appetites. The Radleys is a moving, thrilling, and radiant domestic novel that explores with daring the lengths a parent will go to protect a child, what it costs you to deny your identity, the undeniable appeal of sin, and the everlasting, iridescent bonds of family love. And when the malevolent and alluring Uncle Will, a practicing vampire, arrives to throw the police off Clara’s trail, he winds up throwing the whole house into temptation and turmoil and unleashing a host of dark secrets that threaten the Radleys’ marriage.

A police investigation is launched that uncovers a richness of vampire history heretofore unknown to the general public. One night, Clara finds herself driven to commit a shocking-and disturbingly satisfying-act of violence, and her parents are forced to explain their history of shadows and lies. They are typical, that is, save for one devastating exception: Peter and Helen are vampires and have-for seventeen years-been abstaining by choice from a life of chasing blood in the hope that their children could live normal lives. Rowan, their teenage son, is being bullied at school, and their anemic daughter, Clara, has recently become a vegan. Peter is an overworked doctor whose wife, Helen, has become increasingly remote and uncommunicative. They are a modern family, averagely content, averagely dysfunctional, living in a staid and quiet suburban English town. Just about everyone knows a family like the Radleys. The Radleys is a fun, fresh contribution to the genre” (Associated Press). From the bestselling author of The Midnight Library, an “irresistible.full of clever turns, darkly hilarious spins.Even if you're suffering from vampire fatigue.

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