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The accidental favorite : a novel / Fran Littlewood.

Littlewood, Fran, (author.).

Summary:

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite? Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it's with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside for a weeklong celebration of Vivienne's seventieth birthday. But when Patrick's reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals that he has a favorite daughter, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it sends through the family. Decades-old unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked. And be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts about life decisions both big and small, no one's secrets are safe. Still-tender wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers, and as the family's past is re-written, they find themselves suddenly unmoored. In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250857118
  • ISBN: 1250857112
  • Physical Description: 304 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025.
Subject: Families > Fiction.
Sibling rivalry > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Parent and adult child > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 8 of 27 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 16 current holds with 27 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Madison Main Library FIC LIT (Text) 30229101395209 Adult New Fiction In transit -
Braswell Memorial Main Library FIC Lit (Text) 37807000044365 Adult New Fiction Checked out 08/27/2025
Bryan Memorial Library F Littlewood (Text) 810191001969462 Adult New Fiction Checked out 08/29/2025
East Asheville Library F LIT (Text) 0020513872422 Adult New Fiction On holds shelf -
G.V. Barbee, Sr. Library FIC LIT (Text) 31420621501801 Adult New Fiction Available -
Goldsboro Library F LIT (Text) 900005000288931 Adult New Fiction In process -
Haywood County Main Library F Littlewood (Text) 33115007714641 Adult New Fiction Checked out 08/22/2025
Henderson Main Branch LIT (Text) 33258035511773 Adult New Fiction In transit -
Leland Library FIC LIT (Text) 31423621395364 Adult New Fiction Available -
Lenoir Library F LITTLEWOOD Fran (Text) 50669013371589 Adult New Fiction Checked out 08/28/2025

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