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Children and teenagersA dark secret haunts a family gathering with compelling – and shocking – results"June of the summer I was 15, my father ran off with some woman he loved more than us." Cadence Sinclair, the teenage narrator of We Were Liars, initially seems very familiar: quirky, perky, sentimental and charming, blessed with an unusual name and a neat turn of phrase, surely she's going to lead us on a tale of unrequited love studded with witty one-liners.

Hawaii firesTributes pour in for those who died as majority of the more than 100 people killed in Maui wildfires have yet to be identified While the vast majority of the more than 100 people killed during the Maui wildfires last week have yet to be identified, tributes and condolences to a handful of people who have been named came in as relatives continue to wait to learn if their friends or family members are safe.

Alto at Selfridges, London: ‘Thoughtfully staged, in the best smoke-and-mirrors sense.’ Photograph: Karen Robinson/The GuardianAlto at Selfridges, London: ‘Thoughtfully staged, in the best smoke-and-mirrors sense.’ Photograph: Karen Robinson/The GuardianGrace Dent on restaurantsFoodReviewThe new rooftop restaurant at Selfridges offers small sharing plates at high-end prices En route to Alto by San Carlo, on the rooftop of Selfridges in London, I thought about how for a long time eating in a department store was never anyone’s idea of “destination dining”.

Mummy, mummy, mummy: watch the trailer for Mamma Mia! Here We Go AgainMoviesCher is Meryl Streep's mum – and five more age-impossible casting choicesThere are just three years between the two stars of Mamma Mia 2, yet one apparently gave birth to the other. Cinema has a proud history of credulity-challenging families Sign up for Film Today and get our film team’s highlights of the day Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again, the forthcoming sequel movie, is bound to be a crime against nature for many reasons, but the main one is the inclusion of Cher.

GeniusCrosswordsGenius crossword No 247Click here to access the print version Thirteen entries have a single letter that is not accounted for in their clues’ wordplay. The enumeration of another seven clues is out by one; their answers must be fitted thematically. Solvers should highlight the theme (19 cells) and rework the grid’s shading thematically (not necessary for online entries). Deadline for entries is 23:59 GMT on Saturday 27 January. You need to register once and then sign in to theguardian.

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The ObserverMusic booksReviewWill Hermes's fast-paced history charts the rise of punk, hip-hop and the other musical movements that sprang up in New York in five feverish yearsWhen John Lennon moved to New York in 1971 he described his adopted home as "the capital of the world". Much of the city shared his opinion. For Wall Street traders, UN wonks, ad-land Mad Men, Italian crime lords, Moma curators, Stonewall protesters, Bleecker Street folkies and Nuyorican salsa stars, the Big Apple was, for all its faults, the 20th century's Rome.

The ObserverComedy filmsReviewAvantika’s knockout comic timing lifts a lacklustre fusion of the 2004 high school comedy starring Lindsay Lohan and the 2018 Broadway show This scattershot movie musical remake of a Broadway show based on Mark Waters’s 2004 comedy of high school hierarchies is not overly endowed with new ideas. In fact the feature directing debut of Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr adheres so closely to the story beats of the original movie – homeschooled Cady (Angourie Rice) relocates to an American school from Kenya, and finds herself adopted by the school’s in-crowd, the “Plastics” – that you rather wonder what the point of it is.

Improbable researchResearchFurther studies of the fetishisation of Pippa Middleton’s rear compare Freudian and Marxist viewsThe scholarly community, a portion of it anyway, is diving ever-deeper in the analysis of the rear end of the sister of the wife of the man whose father’s mother sits on the throne of the United Kingdom. The interest has spread westward, to the Republic of Ireland. Ireland has no monarch, and thus does not have a monarch’s child’s child’s spouse’s sibling’s butt of its own to analyse.