Jack Hodgins

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Jack Hodgins

Synopsis:
“You better get home fast. Your father’s taken a turn for the worse.”

Sonny Aalto couldn’t wait to leave home. After his mother disappeared when Sonny was a little kid, his father did a lousy job of raising him. So now that Sonny is in his fifties, a hugely successful businessman in Ottawa with a couple of grown kids, he never thinks of the old man back home on Vancouver Island.

Until the old man gets sick and Sonny has to fly home, and his life changes. To his horror he finds that the old man has six months to live, and can’t cope on his own. What is to be done?

Every reader will sympathize with Sonny’s predicament. Finding a retirement home for his cranky Dad is so tough that he decides to leave it all behind and take a trip with him to Australia. From Sydney they head for the middle of the Australian outback to confront Sonny’s long-lost mother and find a whole new family of half-brothers – not to mention hunting wild boars and being swept away in a flash flood in the desert.

After Australia, the book returns to Vancouver Island, but along the way to Cape Scott (pictured on the cover) Sonny learns hard lessons about fathers and sons, finds love, and discovers the dangers of too much distance.

Partly comic, partly tragic, and packed full of both incidents and characters, this book is a feast of humanity and shows Jack Hodgins at his best.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, Softcover - 2004, Softcover - 2003, Softcover - 2002, Softcover - 2002, Softcover - 2001, 1998, Softcover - 1998, 1998, Softcover - 1997