The Dead Fathers Club

Description

Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge. But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and seven other highly acclaimed books for adults, including How to Stop Time, a Sunday Times bestseller, and The Humans. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been published in forty languages. @matthaig1 matthaig.com

Humorous and original * * Daily Mail * * A story . . . so surprising and strange that it vaults into a realm of its own * * Guardian * * Both funny, surreal and at times full of very black humour * * Sunday Express * * Totally engrossing * * Observer * * Touching, quirky and macabre * * S Magazine, Sunday Express * * Matt Haig is a writer for children and adults who is adept at digging into the human heart * * Sunday Times * * Haig writes exquisitely from the perspective of the heart-sore outsider, but at their most moving his novels reveal the unbearable beauty of ordinary life * * Guardian * *