The book that inspired the 2010 film starring Clive Owen. When Simon Carr's wife, Susie, tragically loses her battle with cancer, Simon is left to raise his five-year-old son, Alexander, on his own. Soon after, his 11-year-old son from a previous marriage, Hugo, comes to live with them too. All too quickly, plumped-up cushions, crisp beds and a drifting scent of rosemary from the kitchen are replaced with a floor piled high with video-games, Lego and comics. While visiting mothers deem his parenting 'semi-feral', Simon dryly retorts that his methods are simply 'free-range'. In this new all-male partnership, Simon faces the challenges of parenthood unaided, as father and sons alike learn to become a family again. Carr's emotionally honest, compellingly anarchic and sharply comic story of a single parent's struggle is at once heartbreaking and wonderfully life-affirming.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornerstone
ISBN-13
9780099547389
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96511504
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Boys Are Back
Author
Simon Carr
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Coping with Illness, Opinion of the People