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FAMILY MATTERS

The family has always been fertile ground for writers. Test your knowledge of fiction and non-fiction titles which take family life as their central theme...

 

 Question 1.
Whose portrait of their own childhood on the island of Corfu was titled My Family and Other Animals?

Kingsley Amis

Gerald Durrell

Martin Amis

Lawrence Durrell

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 Question 2.
Which novel by Carol Shields describes what happens to the narrator's comfortable, middle-class family when her daughter leaves home and begins a vigil sitting on a street corner?

Larry's Party

Unless

The Stone Diaries

Republic of Love

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 Question 3.
Whose novel, which traces several generations of a working class Manchester family, is titled Turn Again Home?

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Shields

Carol Birch

Carol Clewlow

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 Question 4.
What's the title of the first of Gerard Woodward's three novels about the Jones family?

August

September

October

November

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 Question 5.
Who wrote the Dublin IMPAC-shortlisted book The White Family, 'a bold and provocative novel that takes on the taboo subject of racial hatred within British society'?

Maggie Hannan

Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie Alderson

Maggie Gee

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 Question 6.
Can you name Andrea Ashworth's acclaimed autobiography, telling the story of how her family struggled to cope following the death of her father?

Andrea's Ashes

Once in a House On Fire

No Bones

Carry Me Home

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 Question 7.

Who wrote the novel Family Matters, in which Nariman Vakeel, a 79-year-old Parsi widower beset by Parkinson's disease, is forced to take up residence with his daughter, her husband, and their two young sons?

Rohinton Mistry

Romesh Gunesekera

Salman Rushdie

V.S. Naipaul

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 Question 8.
Which novel by Zadie Smith follows the blackly comic fortunes of the Belsey family, on the brink of implosion? 

White Teeth

The Autograph Man

On Beauty

The Book of Other People

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 Question 9.
And which writer, credited with 'inventing a new, implicitly parodic, fictional genre: the anti-Family Saga', won the Whitbread Prize with her novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum?

Jackie Kay

Maggie O'Farrell

Kate Atkinson

Rachel Seiffert

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 Question 10.
And finally, which novel centres on the Smart family, who are spending the summer in a Norfolk holiday home, but are unprepared when a stranger called Amber comes to stay?

Accidents in the Home

The Accidental

The Accidental Woman

Happy Accidents

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