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@2@@20@*** The BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice ***@21@@16@@20@*** An amazon.com Top 20 Books of The Year pick ***@21@@16@@20@*** In development with Paramount TV ***@21@@3@@2@'Funny and charming . . . magical' @18@New York Times Book Review@19@@16@'Hilarious, freewheeling' @18@Guardian@19@@16@'Gloriously imaginative' Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney@3@@16@@2@They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That is, until the magic decided to disappear one night, live on national television.@3@@2@We encounter this long-forgotten family two decades on, when grandson Matty, born long after the public fall from grace, discovers powers in himself and realises his hugely deflated, heavily indebted family truly @18@are @19@amazing.@3@@2@@20@@18@Spoonbenders@19@ is the legacy and legend of a dysfunctional, normal, entirely unique family across three generations of big personalities and socially inept recluses - each cursed with the potential of being something special.@21@@3@
