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|title=Familiar

|author=J Robert Lennon

|publisher=Serpent's Tail

|date=August 2013

|summary=A clever trick of a book that opens up marriage and self-knowing in a thriller fashion, making this slightly weird-seeming look at one woman's identity very intriguing indeed.

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Is there a greater change in the life of a middle-aged woman than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought not, having been forced to bury fifteen year old Silas, and try and move on with her husband Derek and the year-older son, Sam. But a greater change occurs on the way back from her annual, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens to the universe. She pops from one car to another, from under a cloudless sky to a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa to a world where people call her Lisa, where she is plumper, in a different job, stiil married to Derek in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…