[S]pellbinding [Boast s] affecting journey, related without sentimentality or self-pity, is not so much about his need for family as it is a candid reflection on loneliness and personal identity. --Jonathan Fullmer"
'Spare and lyrical, this is a bittersweet memoir of home truths and homecoming' --'Book of the Month', Psychologies
'It's honest, heartbreaking, gorgeously written, and hands down the most moving book I've read so far this year' --Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
'This is not a bleak book, even though it's sad, and readers will enjoy Boast's Stateside view of British cultural oddities. You end up liking him a lot, too' **** --Sunday Express
'A heartbreakingly raw but gracefully constructed Bildungsroman' --Independent
When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he discovers he has two half-brothers living in England. In exquisite prose Will Boast sets about piecing together a new sense of himself, attempting as he does to understand, forgive and heal the mistakes of his father's past.
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