Fran Littlewood is the author of Amazing Grace Adams, which was an instant New York Times bestseller and a #ReadWithJenna book club pick. She has an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London. Before her MA, she worked as a journalist, including a stint at the Times. She lives in London with her husband and their three daughters.
Littlewood's new novel is The Accidental Favorite.
At Lit Hub the author tagged nine favorite stories and folktales featuring sisters. One title on the list:
Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever HadRead about another entry on the list.
Sister quartets in literature have been having a moment, from Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful (billed as an homage to those OG four sisters, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women), to Coco Mellors’ Blue Sisters, and Claire Lombardo’s completely wonderful The Most Fun We Ever Had. Immersive andcomplex, funny and insightful, it’s one of the books I’ve recommended most to friends and family these past few years.
The novel tracks the Sorenson sisters as they move through life’s chaos in the orbit of their besotted parents. There’s Wendy, the eldest (who “was always cause for concern”), Violet, (who “made a habit of avoiding Wendy,” despite them being “practically twins“), Liza (a tenured professor at thirty-two), and Grace, the youngest by nine years (the “only only-child in the world who has three sisters”).
An astute and compassionate portrait of sisterhood, flaws and all, the dynamics between the characters are sublime.”Come in, I guess,” Wendy tells Violet in one scene. “Though, it behooves me to point out that if I ever showed up at your house uninvited you’d have me tasered.” The kind of novel that makes you fall in love with reading all over again, I did not want it to end.
The Most Fun We Ever Had is among Alison Espach's ten best novels about sisters and Tara Sonin's twenty-one books for fans of HBO’s Succession.
The Page 69 Test: The Most Fun We Ever Had.
--Marshal Zeringue
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