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Author: Will BoastCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackPages: 288Publisher: Granta BooksYear: 2015ISBN: 9781847088208
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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