Other People's Children
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- ISBN 9781803513010
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2026
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A story of complicated families and a wartime secret that ripples down through the generations from a writer of exceptional talent
Tommaso is just about making it work: travelling abroad for his job, helping his girlfriend with her two unruly sons, and keeping up with the eccentricities of his Italian grandmother, Alma. But as Alma grows increasingly troubled by strange and unsettling memories, Tommaso realises that there is much in her past that he doesn't know. And the more he discovers, the more it seems that the secrets she has guarded for so long might not only overwhelm her, but upend his own precariously balanced life too.
Reaching back to the tumultuous days of the Italian resistance during the Second World War and into the domestic chaos of modern life, this is a story of the past's long shadow, and the families we have and those we make.
BEN FACCINI is a novelist, writer and translator who grew up in an Anglo-Italian-French family. Having worked for many years for a United Nations agency in Paris, Faccini has written extensively about educational innovations around the world. He is the author of two previous novels, The Water-Breather and The Incomplete Husband. He lives in London.
