A Family Madness (1985) is a novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally.

Writing in The Australian Book Review Ludmilla Forsyth noted: "Thomas Keneally’s A Family Madness attempts to get the reader in touch with life beyond the headline and the common enough family madness which irrupts the security we call home, sweet home.

While each family may be unhappy in its own way, only some hit the screen or the front page, splattering their sorrow onto family breakfasts, lunches, dinners...There is much in this novel that is admirable – Keneally’s moral intent, his compassion, his close study of human nature.

There is also much which is troublesome – the structure, the perspectives, the presentation of history as fiction.

"[2] Publishers Weekly stated: "Keneally brilliantly combines three diverse narrative techniques, and while the book is not light or easy reading, it is enormously rewarding.