All We Need To Know: A Family in Time

1904: a time of stability and hope. In a little Methodist chapel in country NSW shy reserved Albert marries confident emotional Ethel. Both of them are twenty four. Four years later at the brides family home in Sydney shy reserved Eva marries handsome confident Victor seven years her junior. 1969: a time of change and unrest. One of their grandchildren confident emotional Hugh is married in Oxford to a reserved woman seven years older than he is. The pattern has begun to repeat... As Hughs life unfolds the family themes of difference and belonging ambition and failure faith and doubt will play out all over again often in startlingly literal ways. This is a family history like no other focusing squarely on the way that families mysteriously repeat the same patterns of personality and behaviour generation after generation.I laughed I cried I had shocks of recognition and shocks of amazement: I was enthralled. A great story of interlocking lives...every note is in place. - Brian Stagoll psychiatrist and family therapistThere are millions of books we dont need - yours we do. - Gabrielle Lord award-winning novelist