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Violence
None
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Moderate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild; adult relationships among the characters
Substance Use
Some
Moderate; a character's substance use as part of their arc
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the question of what biological connection means to identity; each character's different response to the discovery
What this book is about
Lisa Jewell's contemporary novel: three young adults discover they share a sperm donor father who has recently died. Each follows a different path to understanding what this connection means. Jewell's pre-thriller work is lighter than her later psychological fiction — this is a family drama about identity and connection rather than menace.
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