COMP CLOSED | Book Giveaway | Meet the Newmans

Meet the Newmans
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We’re excited to be giving away two copies of Meet the Newmans by Jennifer Niven to our GrownUps members!

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Meet the NewmansAbout Meet the Newmans

From #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America’s favourite TV family, whose perfect façade starts to crack, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America’s Favourite Family. Millions of viewers tune in every week to watch them play flawless, black-and- white versions of themselves. But now it’s 1964, and the Newmans’ perfection suddenly feels woefully out of touch. Ratings are in free fall, as are the Newmans themselves. Del is keeping an explosive secret from his wife, and Dinah is slowly going numb – literally. Steady, stable Guy is hiding the truth about his love life, and rock ‘n roll idol Shep may finally be in real trouble.

When Del – the creative motor behind the show – is in a mysterious car accident, Dinah decides to take matters into her own hands. She hires Juliet Dunne, an outspoken young reporter, to help her write the final episode. But Dinah and Juliet have wildly different perspectives about what it means to be a woman and a family in 1964. Can the Newmans hold it together to change television history? Or will they be cancelled before they ever have the chance?

Funny, big-hearted, and deeply moving, Meet the Newmans is a rich family story about the dual lives we lead. Because even when our lives aren’t televised weekly, we all have a behind-the-scenes.

Author Information

Jennifer Niven is a number one New York Times and internationally bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction, including the massive breakout All the Bright Places, which she also adapted for the Netflix film directed by Brett Haley and starring Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Luke Wilson and Keegan-Michael Key. Her books have been translated into more than seventy-five languages and have won literary awards around the world. When she isn’t working on multiple books and screen projects, Jennifer oversees Germ, an online literary journal for high-school-age and beyond.

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