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A Family Matter

A Novel

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A Family Matter

By: Claire Lynch
Narrated by: Miranda Raison
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A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: USA TODAY, Goodreads, and Today.com

A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this “perfect” (Elin Hilderbrand) debut novel.

1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of connection that’s impossible to resist, and suddenly life is more complicated, and more joyful, than Dawn ever expected. But she has responsibilities and commitments. She has a daughter.

2022. Heron has just received news from his doctor that turns everything upside down. He’s an older man, stuck in the habits of a quiet existence. Telling Maggie, his only child—the person around whom his life has revolved—seems impossible. Heron can’t tell her about his diagnosis, just as he can’t reveal all the other secrets he’s been keeping from her for so many years.

A Family Matter is a heartbreaking and hopeful exploration of love and loss, intimacy and injustice, custody and care, and whether it is possible to heal from the wounds of the past in the changed world of today.

©2025 Claire Lynch (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio
Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Marriage Heartfelt
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Short, easy read. I would have enjoyed more details in the beginning but overall good storyline

Good story

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Definitely one of the best books I’ve read in the last twelve months! Emotional and heart wrenching

Loved this book

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Beautifully written book. Well performed audiobook. The story, itself, is so incredibly sad and a reminder of how far we’ve come…and, sadly, how far we can fall back as a society if not careful.

So incredibly sad…

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Very well written, very slow getting into it.so horrible how we humans treated such a simple subject.

A tragedy in beautiful way of listening

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I’d heard mixed things about A Family Matter, so I went in with an open mind—hoping I’d end up enjoying it more than expected. Sadly, that wasn’t the case. This one just didn’t work for me. There were some things throughout the book that I didn’t particularly like, and I found myself feeling very disconnected from the characters and their choices. I appreciated the attempt to tackle complicated family dynamics, but the execution didn’t quite land for me. I know some readers might connect more with this story, but personally, it fell flat and I honestly wish I would have skipped this one.

Really didn’t enjoy this one

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