A much loved book in America, the admirers of this little classic include Anne Tyler, Muriel Spark, Harper Lee and Jessica Mitford For fans of Cider with Rosie and Jessica Mitford's Hons and Rebels Sleeping Arrangements has been shortlisted for the YoungMinds Book of the Year Award

This is the magical memoir of Lily Shaine, an orphan brought up by her two eccentric bachelor uncles in New York in the 1950s. Uncle Len is a six-foot-six-inch private investigator, a trench-coated cross between Abraham Lincoln and Sam Spade. Uncle Gabe, a librarian, is a confirmed dreamer who writes gospel songs in his spare time. With these two men as mentors, the human jungle of the Bronx as her playground, the schoolroom as her torture chamber and very knowing little girls as her playmates, Lily learns the secrets of life, sex, death and, above all, family love. A wry, funny and deeply affectionate portrait of the most unlikely of happy families, "Sleeping Arrangements" is a modern classic.