The Radleys

Shadowed by their past, Peter Radley and his wife Helen live quietly. They were once fully-fledged, blood-sucking vampires, but that was then. Now they are Radio-4-listening abstainers and, in Bishopthorpe, have chosen a place for good and quiet people to live good and quiet lives. When their teenage daughter Clara gets attacked on the walk home from a party, she discovers for herself the appetite her parents have kept secret. Life for the Radleys is about to become decidedly less quiet. Families. Sometimes They're A Bloody Nightmare . . . Life With The Radleys: Radio 4, Dinner Parties With The Bishopthorpe Neighbours And Self-denial. Loads Of Self-denial. But All Hell Is About To Break Loose. When Teenage Daughter Clara Gets Attacked On The Way Home From A Party, She And Her Brother Rowan Finally Discover Why They Can't Sleep, Can't Eat A Thai Salad Without Fear Of Asphyxiation And Can't Go Outside Unless They're Smothered In Factor 50. With A Visit From Their Lethally Louche Uncle Will And An Increasingly Suspicious Police Force, Life In Bishopthorpe Is About To Change. Drastically. Meet the Radleys. Peter, Helen and their teenage children, Clara and Rowan, live in a typical suburban English town. They are an everyday family, averagely dysfunctional, averagely content. But, as their children have yet to find out, the Radleys have a devastating secret. In this moving, thrilling and extraordinary portrait of one unusual family, The Radleys asks what we grow into when we grow up, and explores what we gain - and lose - when we deny our appetites What do you really know about your neighbours...?