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What the Family Needed

What the Family Needed

 eBook, Published by Random House UK   (23 August 2012)

£8.99

Book description

This is a story about family life. Its ups, its downs and how one family found incredible ways to get through the hard times.

It all started with a question:

'Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?'

And led to thirty years of discoveries, extraordinary strengths and closely guarded secrets. It turned out to be just what the family needed.

A novel with a touch of strange magic and super powers.

Steven Amsterdam was born in New York and has worked as a map editor, producer's assistant, and a pastry chef. He has lived in Melbourne, Australia since 2003, where he works as a writer and palliative care nurse. His debut novel, Things We Didn't See Coming , won The Age Book of the Year in Australia and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

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