The Family Tree

At a finger buffet held at 24 Beech Drive on the day of Charles and Diana's wedding, Rebecca Monroe's mother locked herself in the bathroom and never came out. Was it because her squidgy chocolate log collapsed? Because Rebecca's grandmother married her first cousin? Or can we never know why we do what we do? According to Rebecca's husband, our genes control our fate, but Rebecca is less sure. Can science explain everything? Love? Chance? Who shot JR? Intertwining relationships between husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, sisters and aunts, go to the heart of this tragicomic history of one British family as Carole Cadwalladr explores what makes us who we are.