La Familia

One of Spain’s most essential novelists Sara Mesa talks to Rosie Goldsmith about her novel exploring how a family's core beliefs can be twisted into tools of quiet domination.

A father obsessed with morality and order rules over the household: journals monitored, food restricted and personal space denied.

His wife and children each respond in their own way: isolation, kleptomania, reinvention and suppression.

The Family is a novel about the damage done in the name of principle and the long aftershocks of childhood.

There will be a book signing after this event.