Every family is different and in Jacinta Halloran, ‘Resistance’ it’s a therapist’s job to decide if a mother and father are fit parents but with so many other family stories in the book, how can anyone decide what makes a good parent.

Dominic Smith explores just how much our past can haunt us in ‘Return to Valetto’ where long buried secrets from World War Two in an almost abandoned Italian village lead to recriminations and unexpected outcomes.