The House We Grew Up In

Title: The House We Grew Up In
Author: Lisa Jewell
Type: Paperback
Read: 11th January - 15th January
Rating: 5/5
Published: 18th July 2013 by Random House UK

Meet the Bird Family. All four children have an idyllic childhood: a picture-book cottage in a country village, a warm, cosy kitchen filled with love and laughter, sun-drenched afternoons in a rambling garden.

But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart. The years pass and the children become adults and begin to develop their own quite separate lives. Soon it's almost as though they've never been a family at all.

Almost.
But not quite.

Because something has happened that will call them home, back to the house they grew up in - and to what really happened that Easter weekend all those years ago.

I love Lisa's books, i have them all and she is one of my all time favourite authors. I've had 'The House We Grew Up In' on my TBR pile for ages an figured i would finally get around to reading it.

I can't fault this book at all. The story is of the Bird family, who one easter are torn apart. It has flashbacks of the day where each sibling and family member are trying to recall exactly what happened that made them drift apart to loose contact with one another for years.

A touching book, one which delves into the minds of those who collect, or in some extreme cases hoard everything and anything they have. It doesnt' sound interesting but i couldn't put it down. Lisa has captured the drama, the conflict and regret/love wonderfully.

I loved all the characters, Megan & Beth were my favourites and i could really see myself in Beth, which kinda freaked me out a bit. But they were to two stand out characters.

Give this a good read, theres some wonderful quotes throughout as well.

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