The Latecomer

The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage, but they are forced to contend with an unexpected complication: a fourth Oppenheimer sibling has just been born. This book is a powerful, beautifully written, and well-plotted novel that spans generations, lives, and fates. It is compulsively readable and thought-provoking, with captivating characters and a great ending.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 560 pages
Publication date: 04 August 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Sparkling, funny, and yet cutting, this novel is a nearly forensic study of family conflict. It is both compulsively readable and thought-provoking. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their parents. However, they have been desperate to escape each other ever since they were born. Now, on the verge of their departure for college and so close to their long-coveted freedom, the triplets are forced to contend with an unexpected complication: a fourth Oppenheimer sibling has just been born. What has possessed their parents to make such an unfathomable decision? The triplets cannot begin to imagine the power this little latecomer is about to exert, nor just how destructive she will be to their plans.

Korelitz draws us in again, this time with her ease, grace, and wit, in a satisfying novel that spans generations, lives, and fates. Meg Wolitzer, the author of The Undoing, has crafted a novel that is powerful, beautifully written, and well plotted. Readers are raving about it, with one describing it as "such captivating characters and plot with an excellent ending." Another reviewer said, "You don't want to skim over a single word of the exquisitely woven story. This book will definitely stay with me for a long time. I loved it."

Weight: 452g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571376902
Edition number: Main