SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOK CLUB CHOICE

All of us look to our childhoods to explain our failings. But what would our childhood selves make of the people we have become?

Autumn 1983. Eight-year-old Ben watches from the top of the stairs as a haggard figure limps into the hallway below…

Ben’s uncle Jack, seriously injured in Afghanistan, is not the same man who left. His return home will throw the lives of his family into turmoil…

“Clever and sensitive…this book stays with you”

Sunday Telegraph

“A triumphant homecoming”

Asian Affairs

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