- Title:
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Let Go My Hand
- Written by:
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Edward Docx
- Read by:
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Daniel Weyman
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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11 hours 7 minutes
- Published:
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April 20 2017
- Available Date:
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April 20 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509863389
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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'Docx knows that what we want most from a novel are stories into which we can sink our teeth and our hearts.'
The Guardian
A brilliant, darkly funny and deeply moving novel about a dysfunctional family and their final chance to fix things.
Louis Lasker loves his family dearly – apart from when he doesn’t. There’s a lot of history. His father’s marriages, his mother’s death; one brother in exile, another in denial; everything said, everything unsaid. And now his father (the best of men, the worst of men) has taken a decision which will affect them all and has asked his three sons to join him on one final journey across Europe.
But Louis is far from sure that this trip is a good idea. His older half-brothers are wonderful, terrible, troublesome people. And they’re as suspicious as they are supportive ... because the truth is that they’ve never forgiven their father for the damaging secrets and corrosive lies of his past. So how much does Louis love his dad – to death? Or can this flawed family’s bond prove powerful enough to keep a dying man alive?
Let Go My Hand is a darkly comic and deeply moving 21st-century love story between a son, his brothers and their father. Through these vividly realised characters, it asks elemental questions about how we love, how we live and what really matters in the end. Frequently funny, sometimes profound, always beautifully written, this intimate and life-affirming novel shows the Booker-longlisted author of Self Help at his brilliant best, and confirms his reputation as one of Britain’s most intelligent and powerful writers.
'Docx has a gift for assessing "the exact shape and weight of other people's inner selves, the architecture of their spirit" and even his most ancillary characters flare into being, vital and insistent.'
The New Yorker