The White Family is a novel by English author Maggie Gee, published in 2002 in London by Saqi Books.

It was shortlisted for both the 2003 Orange Prize[1] and the 2004 International Dublin Literary Award.

[2] It is set in Hillesden, a thinly disguised Willesden[3][4] in north-west London.

Alfred White, a park keeper, collapses while on duty, and his family gather round his hospital bed and reflect on issues of love, hatred, sex and death.

[5] Characters in The White Family appear in Gee's 2004 novel The Flood, set in an unspecified future date.