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The awkward age a novel

Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old s...

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Main Author: Segal, Francesca, 1980- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Subjects:
Stepfamilies > Fiction.
Teenagers > Family relationships > Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Summary: Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.
Physical Description: 358 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780399576454
0399576452
Author Notes: Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her first novel, The Innocents , won the Costa First Novel Award, the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the Sami Rohr Prize, and a Betty Trask Award, and was long-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize).

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