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Join us to celebrate the launch ofThe Good Fatherby Liam McIlvanney! Liam will be in conversation with Val McDermid at St Vincent’s Chapel.
6.30pm on Wednesday 2nd July at St Vincent’s Chapel, St Vincent Street, EH3 6SW.
Buy a copy ofThe Good Father and receive free entry to the event, or choose our Ticket-Only option for 6 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).
As our event is taking place the day before the official publication date ofThe Good Father, any pre-orders will be available to collect on the night.
We will send an email to confirm your booking – please be sure to check your junk/spam folder!
AboutThe Good Father What could be worse than your child disappearing? Gordon and Sarah Rutherford are normal, happy people with successful, fulfilling lives. They have a son they adore, a house on the beach and a safe, friendly and honest community in a picture-postcard town on the Ayrshire coast. Until one day, Bonnie the lab comes in from the beach alone.
Their son, Rory, has gone – the only trace left behind is a single black Adidas slider. Their lives don’t fall apart immediately. While there’s still hope (and no body) they dig deep and try to carry on.
It’s a process of abrasion – a wearing away of happiness and normality; a slow degradation, a gradual breakdown – until they’ll never be the people they were before. This sort of tragedy impacts a whole town. Does the community still feel the same after? What are folk saying about you? Who are your friends? Who can you trust?When the worst thing has happened and you’ve lost everything, you either go under or you rebuild and start again.
About Liam McIlvanney Liam McIlvanney was born in Scotland and studied at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. He has written for numerous publications, including theLondon Review of Booksand theTimes Literary Supplement. His first book,Burns the Radical(Tuckwell Press, 2002), won the Saltire First Book Award. He has also won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel forWhere the Dead Men Go(Faber, 2014) and the Bloody Sunday McIlvanney Prize forThe Quaker(HarperCollins, 2018).
He is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
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