Perfect Family [Import] [Hardcover]

PAM LEWIS (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: HEADLINE REVIEW (2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755332059
• ISBN-13: 978-0755332052
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,921,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Pam Lewis lives in Storrs, Connecticut with her explorer-adventurer husband, Rob Funk. She was born in Burbank, California to a pair of highly ambitious parents who moved the family every few years as her father sought greater responsibilities in the then-bourgeoning aviation industry.
The family finally settled in New York City for long enough for her to attend high school. She was a shy, observant girl, a little too tall too soon and only excelled at school when she finally set her sights on Stanford University and squeaked in on so-so grades. She married immediately after college, and, bucking the trend of feminism and a career, set about raising two magnificent children, Lukas and Joshua Casey who are now well into their adulthoods.
She worked at a motley assortment of jobs including Welcome Wagon lady, treasurer to a small corporation, reporter and swim instructor. When more serious money was required she wrote marketing copy for insurance companies in which the objective was to make the reader see his or her diminishing health and retirement benefits as a welcome change. During this time she wrote fiction furiously every morning, more as pleasure and a touch of therapy than with an eye to publication, which, at that point in her life, seemed unlikely. On the cusp of her 59th year, her first book was taken by Simon and Schuster, then a second and now, with the upcoming publication of A Young Wife, a third.

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Customer Reviews

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Family is a Perfect Summer Book, July 23, 2008

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Steven James (Washington State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Perfect Family: A Novel (Hardcover)

I bought Perfect Family because it was on sale at my book club. I had never heard of the author or the title, just took a chance...kind of like "book roulette". Every once in a while my gambling pays off. This is one of those times. I could not put this book down. I stayed up WAY too late three nights in a row because I was so involved and wanted to find out whodunnit and why. The characters are all unique but interesting in their own ways (except for maybe Jasper, the father, he was kind of vague to me). We know at the beginning of the book that the youngest sister drowns, what we don't know is why or really how. It is a twisted and disturbing journey leading to the big finish. The end of the book is enlightening and well wrapped up. No loose strings hanging which is the mark of a good book in my eyes. If you are looking for a unique page turner for your summer vacation I can't recommend Perfect Family highly enough.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars entertaining family thriller, April 2, 2008

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Family: A Novel (Hardcover)

In Vermont twentyish single mom Pony Carteret drowns while skinny-dipping at her affluent family's vacation home. While the local police investigate the drowning death, the Carteret brood back in Hartford argues over what happened to her and why and who will take in her infant son Andrew since they do not know the name of the father. Pony's widower father Jasper and her oldest sister Tinker are mostly interested in burying the scandal, but for now the latter takes in the child.

That same day that Pony died, she pleaded with her older brother William to come up to the Vermont house to talk where they argued. William feels guilty that he left her there, wondering if the accident or suicide was caused by her being distraught or homicide by her lover, her family, or someone else related to why Pony met with him. He needs to know so he investigates starting from the picture of their late mom taken with another man who is not their father. Meanwhile middle daughter Mira meets Keith at the funeral and begins seeing him; he persuades Mira and Tinker that their brother and their late sister were more than friendly siblings.

Filled with plenty of twists especially when William turns amateur sleuth, the aptly titled PERFECT FAMILY is a wonderful tale of a wealthy New England dysfunctional clan. The story line is character driven by the siblings, the patriarch and William's girlfriend; however, the key player their late mom never seems fully developed though all dynamic lines flow through her as even long dead she remains the hub of the Carteret family. Fans will appreciate Pam Lewis' entertaining thriller as the secrets keep on coming out.

Harriet Klausner

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed this book, it is simple, February 18, 2010

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N. N Perez "LUV2Read" (Las Vegas, Nv United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Family: A Novel (Paperback)

This is a good summer read. FYI, my definition of a good summer read is a

book that is not to complex to follow and definatly not cheesy. This book fits nicely in that category. I knew the ending early on in this book however I felt the author could have tried to hide it a little longer than he/she did. I would not purchase it but I would get from the library.