Everything I never told you (by Celeste Ng)

I hadn’t heard of Celeste Ng, but her debut novel ‘Everything I never told you’ was assigned as this month’s read for our local book group. So I put it on my wishlist at the end of last year, and was given it for Christmas. I didn’t start reading it until a couple of days ago, and finished it today; I found it quite hard to put down at times. It’s set in the United States, with the main part of the story being in 1977. 

The novel opens by telling us that Lydia is dead, but her family doesn’t yet...