The Family Clause

<p><b>'A bold and remarkable novel...full of heart and compassion'</b> <b>Dinaw Mengestu</b><br><br>A bad-tempered grandfather now living abroad is back in Stockholm to see his adult children. The son is a failure the daughter is having a baby with the wrong man and their mother is a heartless deserter. Only he the patriarch is perfect - according to himself at least. Over ten intense days the strained relationships of this chaotic but entirely normal family unfold and painful memories begin to resurface. Something has to give. But the son is duty-bound to his father by a murky years-old agreement - can it be renegotiated or will it bind everyone to the past for ever?<br><br><b>'The dynamics of each relationship are superbly complex and Khemiri's wry comic touch gives a lightness to the inevitability as the children follow in their father's footsteps'</b> <i><b>Guardian</b></i><br><br><b>'Excellent...the complex portrait of a family that is both identifiable and distinctive normal and strange' </b><i><b>TLS</b></i></p>