What the Family Needed

Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the ALS Gold Medal, and longlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award.

“Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?”

What if every now and then, the people in your family woke up with a special power?

Over the span of 30 years we are invited into the secrets of one very unique family, from a mystified teenager to an over-tired night nurse to a conflicted exile.

The surprising strengths they each find show them how to change their lives - and what the family needs in order to survive.