This Is How It Always Is: ‘It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think' Liane Moriarty
Jan 2017 · Hachette UK
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'Thought-provoking and topical' Woman & Home
'Touching' Good Housekeeping
'An astonishing balance of humour, complexity, and above all, kindness' Ruth Ozeki
'Wonderful, magical' Red
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
'Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected' Reese Witherspoon
'It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think' Liane Moriarty, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies
This is how a family keeps a secret . . . and how that secret ends up keeping them.
This is how a family lives happily ever after . . . until happily ever after becomes complicated.
This is how children change . . . and then change the world.
This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess.
When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.
Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes.
Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it's about the ways this is how it always is: change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don't get to keep them forever.
Readers adore This Is How It Always Is
'I'm thinking about this book months on. I want to tell everyone I know to read it.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A wonderful story of unconditional love. I could not put this book down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'One of the most amazing and thought-provoking books I have ever read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'It's just breathtakingly well written, gripping, moving, funny and so on point' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A beautiful love story of two people who meet, fall hopelessly in love and then create a wonderful unique family of five' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Touching' Good Housekeeping
'An astonishing balance of humour, complexity, and above all, kindness' Ruth Ozeki
'Wonderful, magical' Red
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
'Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected' Reese Witherspoon
'It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think' Liane Moriarty, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies
This is how a family keeps a secret . . . and how that secret ends up keeping them.
This is how a family lives happily ever after . . . until happily ever after becomes complicated.
This is how children change . . . and then change the world.
This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess.
When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.
Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes.
Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it's about the ways this is how it always is: change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don't get to keep them forever.
Readers adore This Is How It Always Is
'I'm thinking about this book months on. I want to tell everyone I know to read it.' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A wonderful story of unconditional love. I could not put this book down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'One of the most amazing and thought-provoking books I have ever read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'It's just breathtakingly well written, gripping, moving, funny and so on point' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A beautiful love story of two people who meet, fall hopelessly in love and then create a wonderful unique family of five' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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4.7
22 reviews
Laura Cram
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May 22, 2019
The most well-written book I have read in a long time. So beautiful in prose and sentiment. I have recommended it to everyone I know.
Karen Lynley
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August 22, 2019
A gorgeous story, I was enthralled from beginning to the end I wasnt quite ready for. The story resonated with me as a parent and felt real, heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. Thank you.
Michele Fortune
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June 15, 2018
Could not put tthis down. Well written.
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About the author
Laurie Frankel writes novels (reads novels, teaches other people to write novels, raises a small person who reads and might someday write novels) in Seattle, Washington. She and her husband and daughter live on a nearly vertical hill from which Laurie can watch three different bridges when she's staring out her windows between words.
Laurie's earlier novels are The Atlas of Love and Goodbye For Now. This Is How It Always Is is her third novel.
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