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The Facts of Life

Graham Joyce

Paperback | Pages: 298 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 1083 Users | 111 Reviews

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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	:	Special 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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Ratings: 3.89 From 1083 Users | 111 Reviews

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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,

Sometimes its just entirely unfortunate that a novel is under 300 pages!! Charming, funny, unbelievably real and down to earth. I loved it

THE FACTS OF LIFE is the story of the Vine family, set in Coventry, England just at the end of, and several years after World War II. Martha Vine is an elderly widow matriarch who presides over the lives and adventures of her seven adult daughters. Cassie, the youngest of the sisters, has an affair with an American GI just before the war ends. She then gives birth to a baby boy out of wedlock, whom she names Frank. Cassie is determined to keep little Frank, and Martha is determined that each one

Calling this book "fantasy" is like calling The Time Traveller's Wife "science fiction". Absolutely true, but not what people usually mean by those words. The book this most reminded me of was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It is the story of a family who've survived World War II, beginning to move into the unknown future embodied in the new baby that seven sisters and an amazing mother share between them, their different homes and lives illustrating the forces of history at

I absolutely loved this novel. Low-fantasy, but the best parts is that the reader gets to experience a part of the lives of Martha and her daughters and of course the young Frank. Really enjoyable and a great story about how families can stay together, even during the hard times.

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.

Very nice one. Pure British kitchen-sink story with a lot of amazing female characters and a bit of magic. Some well organized humor structure are detected, although overall impression is closer to something more serious.