my son, my son
  • Published: 15 April 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099552680
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $27.99

my son, my son

how one generation hurts the next

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5 Apr 2012
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15 Apr 2013
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What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This the true story of what happened to Douglas Galbraith when he arrived home to an empty house.

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.
  • Published: 15 April 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099552680
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Douglas Galbraith

Douglas Galbraith was born in Glasgow in 1965 and is the author of four novels, The Rising Sun, A Winter in China, King Henry and my Son, my Son: How One Generation Hurts the Next. He lives in Scotland.

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Praise for my son, my son

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

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