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Original Title: The Facts of Life
ISBN: 0753818426 (ISBN13: 9780753818428)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2003), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Roman étranger (2007), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2003), Prix Masterton for Roman traduit (2006)

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THE FACTS OF LIFE tells the story of an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during the Second World War. Presided over by an indomitable matriach, the sisters live out a tangled and fraught life that takes them through the Blitz, war work and on into the hopeful postwar years, and a bizarre interlude for one of them in a commune. And through it all wanders the young son of one of the sisters, passed from sister to sister, the innocent witness to a life that edges over into the magical.

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Title:The Facts of Life
Author:Graham Joyce
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 298 pages
Published:November 4th 2004 by Phoenix (first published 2002)
Categories:Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Magical Realism. War

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Set in a post-war Coventry dealing with the horrific aftermath of its Blitz, this wonderful novel is the story of the Vine family. Despite the trauma there is hope for a new era, and despite those lost, a new arrival, baby Frank born to Cassie. But Cassie is scatty, dealing with mental health issues that unquestionably these days would be diagnosed at PTSD. She is one of 7 sisters and to prevent an adoption, the tough matriarch Martha decides that all 7 will be responsible for raising him, the

I love Graham Joyce. This is a quiet story of a boy born and growing up in Coventry at the tail-end of WW2 and just after. There's a family of women (mostly), including his mother Cassie, who's a bit fey, and grandmother Martha, also gifted (afflicted?) with a bit of the Sight.The whole family joins in raising Frank. Since Cassie's a little unreliable as a mom, Frank's parenting is shared among the sisters. This is not a hardship to Frank. He gets to live on a farm, in a free-thinking commune,

What an unusual novel. Brilliant characters and an odd, fascinating story. Loved it.

I almost feel badly categorizing this as "fantasy," because it is far and away the lightest (or most normal, mainstream, or conventional) of the Graham Joyce books I've read. The fantastical elements are mere color or flavor, whereas the overall work is an appealing, well-crafted, moving, or even touching chronicle of a large, complicated family surviving and evolving during a difficult time (World War II and the aftermath, in Coventry, England).What's funny is that I'd be less inclined to

This is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. Graham Joyce is an extremely gifted and skilled writer and I am a huge fan.

So I had to knock off a point for the worst title ever. I can't even write this review without getting The Facts of Life theme song in my head. Clearly that show wasn't a big hit in England! But the book has nothing to do with that and is a beautiful story of a family in Coventry, England during WWII. The cover describes it as a "heartrending novel of one family's quest to begin again - without forgetting the lives they left behind"' in a "haunting, war-torn terrain." Fans of magical realism and

Hmm. The family was intriguing and diverse. As a teacher, Franks upbringing was -interesting. I actually was looking for more connections with ghosts.Martha has seven daughters. The youngest, Cassie, is flaky. Martha decides the sisters will share taking care of Cassie and her son, Frank.Numerous odd folk that were interesting. Connections with WWII were pretty compelling. Good, but not enthralling for me.