Family Drama by Rebecca Fallon
Itās the 1990s.
Susan Bliss is trying to make it all work. In L.A., sheās a burgeoning star with big hair and tight jeans, smouldering on the nationās favourite TV drama. But in quiet New England, sheās wife to a history professor and raising two young twins, trying to keep the family on track. What she doesn't know is that there isn't enough time to do it all.
Itās the 2000s.
Viola and Sebastian can barely remember the woman who raised them, and their father has told them little of her fame.
But the past canāt stay hidden forever, and as the teenaged twins pursue the secrets Susan left behind, they spin off in different directions. Sebastian plunges down an investigative rabbit hole. And Viola falls for the movie star Orson Grey, who was once her mother's co-star.
A novel about obsession and ambition, about love and the myths we create for each other.
Everyone has their family secrets, but what happens when you aren't there to tell your story?
- Format:
- Hardback
- 320 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint: The Borough Press
- ISBN: 9780008738303
- Published: 15 Jan 2026
- Classifications:
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
- Fiction: special features
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 241 x 164 x 30Ā (mm)