The Accidental Favorite

A Novel

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Pub Date Jun 24 2025 | Archive Date Jul 25 2025
Henry Holt & Company | Henry Holt and Co.

Description

From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite?

Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They’re well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it’s with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside for a weeklong celebration of Vivienne’s seventieth birthday. But when Patrick’s reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals that he has a favorite daughter, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it sends through the family.

Decades-old unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked. And be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts about life decisions both big and small, no one’s secrets are safe. Still-tender wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers, and as the family's past is re-written, they find themselves suddenly unmoored.

In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents...


Advance Praise

“A tender story about the corrosive power of secrets and what it means to finally let them go. Littlewood writes with pinpoint accuracy about the dynamics between siblings and the beautiful and terrible mess that is family.”

—Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year

“Fran Littlewood is an expert chronicler of family dynamics, and particularly the complex, competitive, and sparkling nature of sisterhood. Once I picked up The Accidental Favorite, I did not want to put it down until the last page was turned.”

—Lottie Hazell, author of Piglet

“A tender story about the corrosive power of secrets and what it means to finally let them go. Littlewood writes with pinpoint accuracy about the dynamics between siblings and the beautiful and...


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ISBN 9781250857118
PRICE $29.99 (USD)
PAGES 320

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