Matt Haig is something of an enfant terrible in the British literary world. Each of his novels is an event, exciting, extraordinary, funny and a little creepy. Haig's books invariably appear on bestseller lists, are filmed, receive prestigious awards and are widely published abroad. The heroes of his new novel “The Radley Family” are typical conservative townsfolk, a father, mother and two children living in a decent, average English village. If they have any oddities, they are completely harmless: poor health, mild allergies to... garlic and sunlight. And there is no point in looking askance at them, they are good people. The Radley children, Rowan and Clara, do not even suspect that their parents have been abstaining for seventeen years, suppressing their true nature. Until one Friday evening a fatal incident occurs, leading to a series of inevitable changes. For the better or not, time will tell...