Family misfortunes laid bare

Things We Need

**By Jennifer Close**

**Chatto & Windus, €16.35**

**Reviewed by Anna Carey**

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If you asked young people where they'd like to see themselves in their late 20s and early 30s, it's fairly safe to assume that few would say that they hoped they'd be living with their parents and sleeping in their old childhood beds. But that's what happens, for various different reasons, to Claire, Martha and Max Coffey in ...