Spoonbenders Av Daryl Gregory

<p><b>*** The BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice ***</b><br><b>*** Bought for TV by Paramount ***</b><br><br>''Funny and charming . . . tailor-made for summer . . . magical'' New York Times Book Review<br>''Hilarious, freewheeling'' Guardian<br>''Gloriously imaginative'' Cynthia D''Aprix Sweeney<br><br><br>They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That is, until the magic decided to disappear one night, live on national television.<br><br>We encounter this long-forgotten family two decades on, when grandson Matty, born long after the public fall from grace, discovers powers in himself and realises his hugely deflated, heavily indebted family truly <i>are</i> amazing.<br><br><b><i>Spoonbenders</i> is the legacy and legend of a dysfunctional, normal, entirely unique family across three generations of big personalities and socially inept recluses - each cursed with the potential of being something special.</b></p