“I loved my wife and
I loved our son. Together, the two of them made my world make sense. My life
without them was unimaginable. I knew I was a lucky man. But I couldn’t help
it, I just couldn’t help it – lately I found myself wondering when I had
stopped being young.”
Harry Silver’s marriage ends just before his thirtieth
birthday: his unhappy wife Gina leaves London for Japan and he is left to look
after their four-year-old son Pat. Also finding himself suddenly unemployed,
Harry must quickly get used to being a single parent and in doing so, becomes
closer to his son and his own father that he has ever been before. But tragedy soon
strikes at the heart of his family, and when Gina finally comes back for Pat,
Harry has to make the hardest decision of his life. With its reflections on
old-fashioned nuclear families and the guilt that comes with failing to provide
your own children with that same stability, Man
and Boy is a touching piece of domestic fiction, dealing with the
complicated relationships that form after any divorce in an often amusing way.
Read an online interview with the author here.
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