- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; First edition (28 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007151233
- ISBN-13: 978-0007151233
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 16.4 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 679,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Modern-day relationships are tested in this very realistic, contemporary story about procreation and new life.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but needs a change in style,
By Greg Farefield-Rose (Hertfordshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Family Way (Paperback)
The Family Way is about three sisters ranging from their mid 20s to 30s, pregnancy and children. Oldest sister Cat more or less brought up her siblings when her mother left and doesn't want children of her own...or does she? Mid-sister Jessica meanwhile has a loving husband but they can't manage to conceive whereas the academically-gifted youngest sibling Megan becomes pregnant after a one-night stand. The Family Way reflects their different attitudes towards motherhood though it is also, as much as this, an illustration of the very strong bond between the three siblings.
Tony Parsons' fourth novel is good with the author being one of the very best writers on modern families and their relationships and values, albeit with sentimental and arguably reactionary undertones. The downside of this though is that, having read Parsons' previous three novels, The Family Way continues the trend of slowly diminishing returns. It would be great to see Parsons try something stylistically or emotionally different like his near contemporary Nick Hornby has with both How To Be Good and A Long Way Down rather than ploughing the same artistic furrow. The Family Way is still a good, contemporary lifestyle novel though the author's unchanging prose style and subject matter is beginning to get a bit tiresome.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Family way a great read,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Family Way (Hardcover)
After reading most of his other books and enjoying them all,looked forward to reading this one too, similar in style and just as good. Tony Parsons manages to write from a women's point of view very well too.The only downside is that its quite easy to read and is over too quickly and wants you wanting another book to find out how the characters manage with the next stage of their lives.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Patronising and boring,
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This review is from: The Family Way (Paperback)
I was extremely disappointed with this book. Tony Parson's views on women seem more than a little sexist, and certainly one dimensional. The opinion suggested by the book is that no woman can be truly happy without a child of her own - even the woman that adopts as she cannot conceive eventually manages it and is suitably 'fulfilled'. The sudden change of heart from Cat - the sister who for most of the book steadfastly rejects the idea of procreating feels unrealistic. Too much of this book is trite, clumsy and clichéd, and the characters are not engaging. I read it to the end purely as it is an extremely easy read and I have a small baby of my own, so am generally too tired for 'real' literature! I would not recommend, unless you are looking for something to rant about!
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