my son, my son

Sep 21, 2024 5:38 AM

Author:Douglas Galbraith

my son, my son

What do you do when your wife abducts your children?

This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland from a few days' work in London.

The house was silent, empty and locked; his four and six-year-old sons' pyjamas lay on the bedroom floor. And on the doormat, confirmation from the Post Office of a forwarding address - in Japan. He has not seen them since.

This book goes to the very heart of relations between parents and children, men and women, and between races and nations - to the heart of what it is to be alive.

Reviews

This book is a howl of pain, beautifully written by a man wounded beyond endurance

—— Sunday Telegraph

A memoir and a meditation that is provocative, humorous, stimulating and profoundly affecting...accomplished...a great, unsettling book

—— Glasgow Herald

Magnificent … as with the best art only suffering and loss can create such brilliance’

—— Scottish Review of Books

A curious first person account

—— Sunday Business Post

Unsettling but moving true story

—— Big Issue in the North

Eye-poppingly unambiguous prose

—— Esquire

Book of the month

—— Scarlet

[Oliver James] does a great job of describing some of the problems in modern society and how the demands of the 21st century can affect a person's happiness... [he] uncovers the answer to how to reconnect with what really matters and learn to value what you've already got. In other words, how to be successful and stay sane.

—— Ana Ivanovic, Tennis Professional , Amazon

Advice that focuses on training you - the parents - rather than your kids. A refreshing approach.

—— Easy Living

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