The Turner House

Angela Flournoy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verve Books

Publishing:15th Oct '26

£10.99

This title is due to be published on 15th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Turner House cover

Meet the Turners: a big, complicated, loving, feuding, vibrant American family.

The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone - and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, the loss of a father.

The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. But now, as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a tenth of its mortgage. The Turner children are called home to decide its fate and to reckon with how each of their pasts haunt - and shape - their family's future.

The Turner Housebrings us a colourful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It's a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home.

Funny, heartbreaking, with the sort of characters you ll miss like family when you finish -- Elizabeth McCracken
Flournoy is a magician. Here is a story that is charming and funny while being whip-smart and profound -- Tayari Jones
An expansive and ambitious novel that descends through the generations of one family's history to achieve real poignancy and power -- TC Boyle
An engrossing and remarkably mature first novel... There is a trace of Gabriel García Márquez * New York Times *
An elegant and assured debut * Washington Post *

ISBN: 9780857309587

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

352 pages