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The nationally best-selling Hughes returns with a darkly amazing Mad Men-esque dilemma of family secrets and professional is placed reminiscent of Richard Yates' Revolutionary Street and James Salter's Light Years. From the outside in, the Devlin family business lead almost-perfect lives. Dashing dad Nick is a successful businessman long hitched to sweetheart Jean, who upholds the family home and throws meal parties while child Lily attends Catholic university and is also disciplined into modesty by the nuns. Beneath the surface, however, the Devlins are silently damaged by the fatality of the little son. As Nick's more aged brother, a man powered by callous and rapacious urges, inducts Nick in to the cut-throat world of beauty products, the Devlin family are further fragmented by betrayals and patients of the cruelest kind of hurt. In The Loved Ones, Hughes calls for her gimlet eye deep in to the magic formula places between women and men to provide an incisive portrayal of 1 family's struggle to stay together against stacked odds of deception, adultery, and loss. Years in the making, this is Hughes' astonishing and compulsively listenable breakout, a sweepingly cinematic novel of relationships identified by a time of glamour and decadence.
