The Dead Fathers Club
By: Matt Haig
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780099488750
Subjects: Apparitions; Bereavement in children; Fathers and sons; Fiction
Description: Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge. But will Leah, the gorgeous daughter of Uncle Alan's God-fearing business partner, Mr Fairview, prove too much of a distraction? And can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living? Philip makes his decision and when the moment comes to act, he finds himself hurtling towards disaster.
Notes: Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2006.