Five dysfunctional literary households

Emma Donoghue's latest novel is Frog Music.

The author tagged five favorite unconventional fictional families for the Telegraph, including:[L]et’s start with the indescribable Mister Sandman (1995) by Canadian visionary Barbara Gowdy: if this story of skeletons (and little people, and parents) in the closet doesn’t put you off, then you are a true aficionado of domestic life at its most weird