Synopsis
Years ago, they fled the lake house.
Now, the brothers have returned.
Three brothers return to the family cottage by the lake where, more than two decades earlier, a catastrophe changed the course of their lives. Now, they are here to scatter their mother's ashes - young men, estranged but bound together by the history that defines them. Their lives have been spent competing for their father's favour and their mother's love, in a household more like a minefield than a home. What really happened that summer day when everything was blown to pieces?
The Survivors is a suspenseful, haunting novel about three brothers and their reckoning with the events of one disputed, disastrous summer.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN: 9780349726861
- Number of pages: 272
- Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 21 mm
- Weight: 230g
- Languages: English
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The Survivors
This story is about three brothers and their upbringing. The story is very sad from beginning to end and I could not tell where the story would go. The b... READ MORE
Unrelated to her previous books
I’m giving 4 stars to this purely because of the ending. I struggled with the way it jumped around in time to tell the family history as well as the presen... READ MORE
Disappointing
I was looking forward to reading this book and had high expectations but sadly I just couldn’t get into the story at all. Unfortunately this was not the bo... READ MORE
Dark & haunting book!
The Survivors by Alex Schulman was a dark, haunting and depressing read for me. Story of three brothers in childhood and adulthood struggling with the dea... READ MORE
Not worth reading, despite a good twist
I initially struggled with The Survivors - I started it before it came out over a year ago and then put it down at around 10%. I picked it back up trying t... READ MORE
An emotional story about brotherhood, family and life
This is a book about the relationship between three brothers, Nils, Benjamin and Pierre. The timeline jumps from past to present and I found it hard to kee... READ MORE
Compelling, but not an easy read.
The story reads like a jigsaw puzzle, you are given the outside pieces- three brothers are scattering their Mothers ashes - then the middle pieces are fill... READ MORE
Boring
I received an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review thanks to NetGalley. Unfortunately the writing style of this novel just wasn’t my cup of t... READ MORE
Heart Breaking but brilliant
I managed to get my hands on a early copy of this having fell in love with the cover sometime ago.
This is a heart breaking read about a family, somethings... READ MORE
Brothers so close in youth have to face their past.
Three brothers were close as children when they were by the lake but something happened that altered their lives and they had to leave.
Now they are bac... READ MORE
Great premise, but…
I loved the the premise of this book and was eager to get in to it, however, it’s very slow paced and my initial excitement quickly dwindled. I won’t write... READ MORE
Hard to put down
An isolated cottage surrounded by tall, dense trees, a police car trundling carefully down a tractor path towards it, three tear stained, beaten brothers a... READ MORE
A powerful story of sibling rivalry
I've had to take a few minutes to compose myself to write this review, so powerful is this story of three brothers who have gathered by their childhood hol... READ MORE
Nordic Noir
In the wake their mother's death, three estranged brothers return to Lakeside cottage, where over two decades ago, an unspeakable accident forever altered ... READ MORE
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