A Happy Family
Uma Familia Feliz
On behalf of: Companhia das Letras
In A Happy Family, the master of suspense and best-selling author Raphael Montes, whose novels have sold over 1 million copies, explores the tensions of family relationships and appearances in a perfect gated community, in a complex narrative about childhood and motherhood.
Eva is married to a successful, upcoming lawyer and has beautiful, intelligent and loving twin daughters. Her work, creating realistic “reborn” baby dolls, is an online hit. However, when she finds out she’s creating in her womb another perfect baby — a real one, in a house full of fake babies — she starts seeing her surroundings differently, and her world turns upside down.
The challenges of raising a new child change the household completely, and, when Lucas appears with a bruise on his stomach, their perfect life starts to unravel. From then on, a series of strange events occurs, suspicion arises, and, questioning her own sanity, Eva must get to the bottom of what’s really happening.
A master of suspense, Raphael Montes innovates by opening this psychological thriller with its final chapter. Like a time-bomb that’s about to go off, we follow the surprising paths and tensions leading this happy family to a devastating ending.