Synopsis
Ten years on from MAN AND BOY, it is crunch time for Harry…
Life is good for Harry Silver. He has a beautiful wife, three wonderful children and a great job as producer of the cult radio show, A Clip Round the Ear. But Harry is about to turn forty and his ex-wife is back in town. Soon it could be time to kiss the good life goodbye…
When Harry's fifteen-year-old son Pat moves out to live with his mother, the hard times have only just begun. With his son gone, his job at risk and his wife unsettled by the reappearance of her own ex, their dream seems to be falling apart.
Into the chaos of Harry Silver's life stroll two old soldiers who fought alongside Harry's late father in The Battle of Monte Cassino in the spring of 1944.
Will these two grumpy old men help Harry reclaim his son, his family and his life? And can they show Harry Silver what it really means to be a man?
“We envied families who had a good divorce. Families
where the love was still intact, despite everything. Families where they
remembered every birthday- on the actual day. Families that did not let entire
years slip by, entire year just wasted. Families where the absent parent turned
up at the weekend on time, stone-cold sober and eager to prove the wise old
saying, “You don’t divorce your children”
Life for Harry Silver is confounding, a mash of
mundane living with an ex-wife, a second wife, step children and a son learning
to stand on his own two feet. He is
unsure of where he stands when his son’s mother comes back to his life wanting
a relationship, for so long, his son has been his and no one else. A single
parent at heart, he’s bereft by the intrusion of the ex-wife.
Tony Parson proves that with charm and perfect writing skills, a book about life
in its natural form could be as transcendent as
a book intent of evoking emotions. I got the sense that he wasn't trying
too hard, an effortless masterpiece
with wonderful dialogue.
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