Like Father Like Son - Hardcover

Tipping, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190827414X ISBN 13: 9781908274144

Publisher: The Sundial Press

Synopsis

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON is a tale of domestic disruption and intrigue spanning the course of a year in the not-so-sleepy Dorset village of Lynchets Wood. Former diplomat Harold Ingram lives in contented retirement with his wife Thelma – until an old colleague from his Africa days turns up and drops a bombshell. Residing nearby in professional limbo, their son Luke contemplates his future after many years in Hong Kong, but like his father suddenly finds, as he embarks on a casual affair with a family friend, that the past cannot be so easily left behind. In a kind of narrative hopscotch, the novel skips lightly among the emotional entanglements of the main characters while embracing a full cast of minor ones as well, from the right-minded eco-bore Michael Green to the no-nonsense spinster Hermione Bodleigh, determined to get her man. Good-humour and civility win out, yet the novel’s comic element - its sprinkling of wit and touch of farce - is tempered by a note of melancholy that underlies the compulsions of sexual licence and the simple passage of time. Above all, ‘Like Father Like Son’ is a story of how, through the unencumbered virtue of honesty, the present can be made to accommodate the past, and the future faced without trepidation.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Sundial Press
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190827414X
• ISBN 13: 9781908274144
• Binding: Hardcover