{"product_id":"our-fathers-a-gripping-tender-novel-about-fathers-and-sons-from-the-highly-acclaimed-author","title":"Our Fathers: A gripping, tender novel about fathers and sons from the highly acclaimed author","description":"Product Description\n\n\nWhat kind of man kills his own family?A gripping, tender novel about fathers and sons from the highly acclaimed authorA Guardian crime and thriller book of the year 2020'This is a beautifully realised novel, touching on the fallibility of memory and the unknowability of families, and gripping in its intensity. Outstanding' Mail on Sunday'A spectacular novel' SpectatorWhen Tom was eight years old, his father took a shotgun and shot his family: his wife, his son and baby daughter, before turning the gun on himself. Only Tom survived.He left his tiny, shocked community on the island of Litta and the strained silence of his Uncle Malcolm's house while still a young boy. For twenty years he's tried to escape his past. Until now.Without knowing how to ask, he needs answers - from his uncle, who should have known. From his neighbours, who think his father a decent man who 'just snapped'. From the memories that haunt the wild landscape of the Hebrides. And from the silent ones who know more about what happened - and why - than they have ever dared admit.By turns gripping, beautiful, devastating and tender, Our Fathers is a story about violence and redemption, control and love. With understated compassion and humour, Rebecca Wait gives a voice to the silenced and to the silences between men of few words.\n\n\nReview\n\n\n'With\nan immaculate sense of place and great compassion, Rebecca Wait\nreaches behind the headlines to tell a story of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation.\nStark yet\nlyrical, subtly\nmysterious and always humane, Our Fathers is a novel that details the trauma that is left behind in the long, bleak aftermath of violence' ―\nNina Allan, author of The Dollmaker\n\n\nRebecca Wait accomplishes something truly rare: a novel that exerts an extraordinary grip without appearing to apply much force. She is adept at peeling away enough of her characters' inner lives to help us to understand their hurt and their dilemmas, but without ever making them into emotional freak shows. ―\nIrish Examiner\n\n\nA wonderful novel ―\nSpectator\n\n\nPerceptive, generous exploration of ... trauma ―\nLiterary Review\n\n\n Beautifully spare and profoundly upsetting... an absolutely captivating book ―\nThe Tablet\n\n\nAn astonishingly powerful story of toxic masculinity, regret and the possibility of redemption. ―\nGuardian\n\n\nA deeply involving study of a controlling father and the devastation he wreaks. Wait evokes the isolated community where the violence unfolds with\nstartling realism and compassion.\nA wise and moving novel. ―\nPolly Clark\n\nThis is\na beautifully realised novel, touching on the fallibility of memory and the unknowability of families, and gripping in its intensity.\nOutstanding. ―\nThe Mail on Sunday\n\n\nRebecca Wait is a master pageturner ―\nBuchkultur\n\nRebecca Wait\nmoves between psychological novel, family novel and crime thriller. And\nremains as effectively sparse as the landscape of the Hebrides itself. Everything only rock and heath, moor and sea, in between fate, human ―\nBerliner Zeitung\n\n\nOur Fathers is a compelling and insightful exploration of the way the effects of an atrocity ripple out to affect an entire community. Wait has the gift of finding the universal truths in extreme events and making them live on the page.\nPrecise, restrained and disarmingly funny, this novel beguiles, shocks and charms.\n\nIn clear and tight writing, this is the riveting story of a few moments of violence and the decades of impact that follows.\nThe novels makes very human what would otherwise be a headline. This is a writer to watch.\n\n\nGripping ―\nThe Irish Times, The Gloss\n\nWait ... offers\n a thoughtful and wrenching portrait of a small Scottish town wracked by guilt over an incident of domestic violence. ...\nFans of Patrick McCabe and Jon McGregor will appreciate Wait's melancholic snapshot ―\nPublishers Weekly\n\nMemory, masculinity, and survivor's guilt are picked apart as the novel treads its path, dodging sensationalism and easy resolutions whi","brand":"riverrun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39664546512981,"sku":"9781529400069N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/4ccd3054-688d-41bd-bbf8-da424e408c37.jpg?v=1644248247","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/our-fathers-a-gripping-tender-novel-about-fathers-and-sons-from-the-highly-acclaimed-author","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}