The quality of writing (which is great) makes this book a little harder to read as you keep going back to some interesting set pieces written earlier. The ending is of course without doubt but the journey along the way is most enjoyable. A book which should not be rushed through and savoured in bits...
The premise of Contact is a very simple one. A successful businessman in his fifties is approached by a young man who claims to be his son from an affair that he had thirty years earlier, an affair that he never told his wife about. There's no complicated plot; it's all about the interaction between...
Dominic Pattison is a successful, business-owning, fifty-something whose comfortable life is disrupted when he is approached by Sam, a builder and former soldier, who claims to be his son - allegedly the product of a long-forgotten affair Dominic had with a woman called Sarah thirty years ago. Foul-...