The duo began writing songs when their bands were on the bill of a big rock concert a few years ago, and eventually recorded this album, also called Fiction Family.

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Obviously fascinated with families, he has written eloquently elsewhere about his relationship with his mother, and has peopled his fiction with fractured family relationships.

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Bits of memory remained but he had difficulty discerning fact from fiction, and Susan soon supported the family.

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Underneath the science fiction, the story deals with a slightly dysfunctional family and their attempts to reconnect with one another.

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Dickens's family life was as emotionally charged as anything in his fiction.

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Family stress is the central issue in this movie and psychologists say it's not all fiction.

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