Everything I Never Told You taut tale ever deepening

There is much here that might impress Pulitzer and Man Booker judges...Ng brilliantly depicts the destruction that parents can inflict on their children and on each other Mark Lawson, Guardian This intriguing tale of unhappy families will have you gripped from the opening line . . . No wonder it beat Hilary Mantel and Stephen King to win Amazons book of the year StylistLydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee a girl who inherited her mothers bright blue eyes and her fathers jetblack hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue in Marilyns case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in Jamess case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party. But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio. Her father is an American born of firstgeneration Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make them conspicuous in any setting. When Lydias body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost. Lydias older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But its the youngest in the family Hannah who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened. And if... | Celeste Ng Everything I Never Told You : 'a taut tale of ever deepening and