This Is How It Always Is

Wonderful, magical - Red

Huge heart, humour and compassion. A sparkling tale about the power of secrets, loyalty and love, this novel is wonderfully engaging, gorgeously written and has characters that will captivate you - Sunday Mirror

A lively and fascinating story of a thoroughly modern family and the giant, multifaceted love that binds them. THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS sparkles with wit and wisdom - Maria Semple

Heart-warming and funny… I found this both unputdownable and enlightening. I’m so glad I’ve read it - I know so much more about life now - Katie Fforde

I was lucky enough to receive an advance reading copy of this very special book about a family with a secret. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think. - Liane Moriarty

An astonishing balance of humour, complexity, and above all, kindness - Ruth Ozeki

A beguiling tale of a sprawling, loving, ever-changing, unconventional and yet completely typical modern family… Wonderfully moving - Garth Stein

Laurie Frankel writes novels (reads novels, teaches other people to write novels, raises a small person who reads and might someday write novels) in Seattle, Washington. She and her husband and daughter live on a nearly vertical hill from which Laurie can watch three different bridges when she’s staring out her windows between words.

Laurie’s earlier novels are The Atlas of Love and Goodbye For Now. This Is How It Always Is is her third novel.