The Family Law EPUB

Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his familys latest antics

The book that inspired the major SBS television series!

Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humourist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions. Why wont his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? Will his childhood dreams of Home and Away stardom come to nothing? What are his chances of finding love?

In this updated edition with a new chapter, Benjamin Law fills us in on his familys antics from the past decade.

‘Benjamin Law manages to be scatagogical, hilarious and heartbreaking all at the same time. Every sentence fizzes like an exploding fireball of energy.’—Alice Pung

‘A vivid, gorgeously garish, Technicolour portrait of a family. Its impossible not to let oneself go along for the ride and emerge at the books end enlightened, touched, thrilling with laughter.’—Marieke Hardy

‘The eccentric, clever and beautifully resonant The Family Law. Its sharply written, brilliantly observed and infused with an authenticity that makes it compelling.’ —Saturday Age

‘Very funny...you may find yourself at times almost barking with laughter’ —The Monthly

‘Law is a writer of great wit and warmth who combines apparently artless and effortless comedians patter with a high level of technical skill.’ —Sydney Morning Herald

‘Simultaneously weird and instantly recognisable, the Laws are an Australian family its well worth getting to know’ —The Enthusiast

‘Wonderful. Everyone should run to their nearest bookshop and buy a copy.’ —Defamer

‘An addictive read.’ —Courier-Mail