The Radleys

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Families. Sometimes they're a bloody nightmare ... Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and self-denial. Loads of self-denial. But all hell is about to break loose. When teenage daughter Clara gets attacked on the way home from a party, she and her brother Rowan finally discover why they can't sleep, can't eat a Thai salad without fear of asphyxiation and can't go outside unless they're smothered in Factor 50. With a visit from their lethally louche Uncle Will and an increasingly suspicious police force, life in Bishopthorpe is about to change. Drastically.

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time and The Humans. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been published in over forty languages. @matthaig1 | matthaig.com

Addictive * * Daily Mail * * Highly recommended * * Observer * * Great fun * * Vogue * * Red-blooded fiction at its most seductive * * Sunday Telegraph * * Haig's very original spin on the [vampire] myth is insightful, frightening and uplifting * * Guardian * * Delightfully eccentric . . . a strangely moving portrait of a marriage * * Financial Times * * Delightfully new and, unusually, rather English . . . An enjoyably twisty and self-aware tale * * Metro * * Haig writes in addictive, bitesize chapters that pump the action along . . . All vampire fiction has a strong sexual element, but in this book, the passion's not just for the pale-faced teens * * Daily Mail * * Beautifully written . . . I just loved The Radleys -- JO BRAND A sharp, bloody tale of abstinence and indulgence (and trying not to eat the neighbours) -- STEVEN HALL