num_pages: 298
description: THE FACTS OF LIFE tells the story of an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during the Second World War. Presided over by an indomitable matriach, the sisters live out a tangled and fraught life that takes them through the Blitz, war work and on into the hopeful postwar years, and a bizarre interlude for one of them in a commune. And through it all wanders the young son of one of the sisters, passed from sister to sister, the innocent witness to a life that edges over into the magical.
language: English
title: The Facts of Life
titlecomplete: The Facts of Life
genres: Magical Realism, British Literature, Historical, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, World War II, War, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1218
places: Coventry, Warwickshire, England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Prix Masterton
category: Roman traduit
publisher: Phoenix