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A Beautiful Family

A Novel

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A Beautiful Family

By: Jennifer Trevelyan
Narrated by: Ruby Hansen
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Over the course of one sunbaked summer vacation, a family is pulled into a web of mysteries that the younger daughter sets out to solve. A tense, thrilling debut of childhood, innocence, and evil.

"I absolutely loved this page-turning family mystery and didn’t want it to end. . . An extraordinary, exquisitely written debut."—Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of Here One Moment

At ten years old, she catches more than her parents and older sister suspect. Over their summer break, her mother plans to finish her novel, her father wants to grill and watch cricket, and her fifteen-year-old sister hopes to catch the eye of a local lifeguard. With everyone around her distracted, she teams up with a new friend to solve a mystery that haunts this vacation community: they'll close the case of what happened to Charlotte, a child who was presumed drowned two years earlier.

But things aren't quite as they seem, and as the children look for clues, they inadvertently dislodge information they wish they'd never uncovered. Are her parents happy together? Is her sister putting her trust in the wrong people? Is their vacation rental as safe as it seems? And when someone else goes missing, the family find themselves at the center of an urgent police investigation.

Debut novelist Jennifer Trevelyan viscerally captures the confusion and frustration of childhood, the fraught but unshakeable bond between sisters, and the dangers that lurk in the white lies we tell—especially about the people we love most.

©2025 Jennifer Trevelyan (P)2025 Random House Audio
Coming of Age Family Life Genre Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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Critic reviews

"I absolutely loved this page-turning family mystery and didn’t want it to end. The author so effortlessly transported me to another place and time, and every character leapt off the page. An extraordinary, exquisitely written debut."—Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of Here One Moment

“Dappled in sand and shadow, A Beautiful Family is part coming of age story, part taut thriller, part travelogue, perfectly transporting the reader not only to summer holiday on the New Zealand coast but also to that magical age between childhood and adolescence when the world starts to reveal its dark secrets and everything is more complicated—and, yes, beautiful—than it has seemed. Jennifer Trevelyan’s immersive debut is atmospheric and aching.”–Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of Family Family

“This novel, part mystery and part Bildungsroman, is gripping; every chapter brings an unexpected twist, further complicating and deepening each storyline.”—Kirkus Reviews

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