Family Drama

De: Rebecca Fallon

'A magnificent debut. It has everything I love – gorgeous writing, complicated love affairs, a gripping storyline' CLARE LESLIE HALL, author of BROKEN COUNTRY

'Intelligent and very moving' ROSIE PRICE, author of WHAT RED WAS

'A truly sublime novel' HANNAH BEER, author of I MAKE MY OWN FUN

Susan Bliss is torn between two lives.

Her husband Alcott has decided only one will be remembered.

It’s the 1990s.

Susan Bliss is trying to make it all work. Her growing stardom in L.A., where she's a regular on the nation's favourite TV show. And her less lauded role as wife in New England, married to a history professor and raising young twins.

It’s the 2000s.

Susan Bliss died young, and Viola and Sebastian have no real concept of their mother’s fame.

But the past can’t stay hidden forever, and as the teenaged twins pursue the secrets their mother left behind, they spin off in different directions. Sebastian plunges down an investigative rabbit hole. Viola falls for the movie star Orson Grey, who was once her mother's co-star.

Obsession, ambition, love, pain, wonder, mystery. Every family has its dramas. But what happens when someone else tells your story?

Perfect for fans of Maggie O’Farrell, Ann Napolitano or Claire Lombardo, Family Drama is an exquisite debut novel about the fantasies we create and the people we become.

©2026 Rebecca Fallon (P)2026 HarperCollins Publishers

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'Family Drama is a magnificent debut. It has everything I love – gorgeous writing, complicated love affairs, a gripping storyline and so many pitch-perfect observations, I often had to read a sentence twice' Clare Leslie Hall, author of Broken Country

'A truly sublime novel about families, fame, ambition, and all the things they inspire – love, rage, grief, joy. I could’ve read on and on about the Blisses, and can’t wait for whatever Rebecca Fallon writes next' Hannah Beer, author of I Make My Own Fun

'I was transported by this magical novel and its characters – full of their big, messy dreams and the pain of sacrifice and lost love. Rebecca Fallon has written a sharp, intelligent and very moving novel that evokes brilliantly that sweet spot when the internet – the ways we connect to each other, the ways we remember – might have become something other than what it now is. The book brims with life and powerful emotional truths: about family, about the ruptures and the tears that appear irreparable, and the shared histories that pull us back together. I loved it' Rosie Price, author of What Red Was