In affairs of the heart, how far can family loyalties be stretched before they snap?
Siblings Rachel and Bill cannot escape the events of the past as anger and guilt threaten to engulf their lives and the lives of their families, the way fifty years earlier the flood engulfed their home and killed their mother.
1953, and although the coastal village of Stepmouth appears as idyllic as ever, a passionate feud threatens to shatter the small, tight community. Sixteen-year-old Rachel Vale, wilful and unconventional, has fallen in love with the man her brother hates. When the town is devastated by a vast, unstoppable flood, the Vale family is left broken and irreconcilably divided. Or so it seems.
2003, and Laurie Vale, an only child and aspiring artist, takes a phone call from an aunt she never knew existed, only to discover that everything she ever believed about her family is a lie. As the truth unfolds, the hopes and passions buried in the Vale family's past surface once more. Unknowingly, Laurie has also taken the first step towards becoming ensnared in a complex love affair of her own.
Divided between Fifties Stepmouth and the searing heat of a present day Mallorcan summer, We Are Family is a modern family saga which explores the conflicting relationships of two very different generations.
