The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 'Jangly with secrets' Sunday Times 'Funny, inventive, surprisingly moving' Guardian 'Royal Tenenbaums-style saga of dysfunctional family' The Times When Arthur Hayman, author of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies, a bizarre chain of events makes his series of children’s novels world-famous. But buried deep inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake Arthur’s family – his son, Luke, reluctantly immortalized as the young hero; his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen; and his enigmatic wife,...